Immigrant raped student after dragging her from nightclub, court told

Immigrant raped student after dragging her from nightclub, court told
Source: Daily Mail Online

A Sudanese immigrant told a crying student he had dragged out of a nightclub 'I love you' as he raped her, a court heard.

Samir Muhammad allegedly forced the young woman to strip before pinning her to a bed and raping her, while ignoring her repeated pleas for him to stop.

Jurors were told the then 17-year-old kept the girl trapped in his flat in Bournemouth, Dorset, blocking her from answering calls from worried friends.

She managed to share her location using a social media app Snapcat, alerting friends to where she was.

After several hours, Muhammad finally let her go, and she ran out of the building in the town centre of the seaside resort.

After meeting her friends, they managed to find a passing police car and reported the attack.

The court heard Muhammad, whose immigration status is unclear, had saved his number in the girl's phone, enabling police to trace him quickly.

Now aged 21, he is on trial at Bournemouth Crown Court charged with two counts of rape.

Jurors were told the pair had met at the Cameo nightclub in Bournemouth on the night of the incident on December 5, 2021.

The student later told police she had consumed just one drink but had felt 'really drunk' and 'out of it' soon afterwards.

Prosecutor Louise McCullough said Muhammad had approached her in the club and appeared determined to take her back to his flat.

'He pulled her hand towards the door. She didn't want to go, but she was in her words "so out of it".
'Before she knew it, and not having a chance to talk to her friends, she was out of the club and walking back to his flat.
'She was pulled up some stairs and he told her to get undressed.
'He took all her clothes off and she was told to get into bed. She said 'no, I don't want to' but he ignored this and simply told her to relax.
'He was going to get what he had wanted regardless, and he grabbed both her wrists and pushed her down.
'Her efforts to resist him were futile as he simply overpowered her.
'She was worried about what he was going to do if she didn't do as she was told.
'The victim was evidently drunk at the club, and this is something the defendant took advantage of.
'She was held down and we say she was raped.'

The complainant's taped police interview was played to the jury.

She told officers that she felt 'really drunk' after having a drink in the club.

She said: 'I was pretty drunk, about seven out of ten, when we got to the club, but I was not unaware of what was going on. As we are students, we pre-drank before the club to save money.

'I remember this boy dancing behind me, and at first I thought he was harmless. I lost my friends for a while, and when I saw them again, one of them asked "please could I have a sip of your drink".

'I had no idea where it came from but the boy came over and started dancing behind me again. By then, I felt really drunk, and the boy said "come back to my flat".

'I remember being so out of it, he took my hand and pulled me towards the door. I didn’t want to go, but I was out of it. He took me to his room in this dirty, damp flat and forced me to take my clothes off.

'He pinned me down by my wrists, and it was so awful and painful; I was flinching at the slaps and bleeding. He said "relax baby I love you" and "I want you to meet my family".

'I couldn’t believe this stranger was telling me he loved me while forcing himself on me. He was answering his phone and talking in different languages to them while on top of me.

'I was crying and telling him he was hurting me. I curled up in a ball as I felt so dirty. I asked to leave, but he kept saying I couldn’t leave. I was worried about what he would do to me.'

In the interview, she said she borrowed his charger to charge her phone, which had run out of battery, so she could raise the alarm with her friends.

She said he tried to stop her from using her phone and then said she should tell them she was with her boyfriend.

She then used the Snapchat location tool to alert her friends of her whereabouts and they came to the address.

Before they arrived, she was finally able to persuade him to let her leave Sandringham House at 5.50am.

Muhammad denies two counts of rape as he says the sex was consensual.

The trial continues.