A student who got drunk on her first night in university woke to find a man having sex with her just hours after she had arrived, Cardiff Crown Court has been told.
The 20-year-old said she told defendant Akeem Hassain, also 20, to stop, that he was “hurting” her and said she “bled all over him”.
When he was arrested a few days later, Hassain, who denies rape, told a police officer: “That can’t be right - I’m doing police sciences”.
'A bit of a blur'
The woman said she could only remember part of what happened when she and her fellow freshers started socialising not long after they had finished unpacking.
The court heard how some of her new friends had to physically assist the young woman back to her room because of the state she was in.
One witness, a criminology student said she had been so drunk herself that the next morning she went to the alleged victim’s room to ask what had happened the night before, because it was all a “bit of blur”.
She told the court from the witness box: “I don’t really remember that whole night.
“The next day I wanted her to fill me in and found her upset in her room.
“She looked like she had been crying and said a boy had come into her room and forced himself on her and when she told him to stop, he wouldn’t.
“She didn’t know who it was.
“When I went out for a cigarette, another student asked me how she was because she had been really drunk and someone interrupted and said she was the one ‘Akeem sh----d last night’.”
Campus gossip
Cross examined by defence barrister, John Ryan, the witness agreed that claim, that she had been “sh----d” by Hassain was then being “gossiped about a bit” on campus.
Hassain, 20, of Oak Road, Merthyr, denies rape, telling a jury, everything that took place in September 2014 had been consensual.
Prosecuting counsel Michael Jones told the jurors: “It may be said by the defence that she was embarrassed after having a one-night-stand and wants to save her reputation but she was sobbing and distraught when she contacted old friends in the early hours.”
He said they would have to decide whether she was, as the defence claimed, only slightly intoxicated and fully willing to engage in sex or so drunk that she had to be helped to bed, woke to find someone taking advantage of her and was making a “wicked” complaint not to be considered an “easy-lay”.
“The prosecution say this case involves a male fellow student taking advantage of a girl in a vulnerable position,” he said.
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