The “bowled over and stressed” female is stated to have frozen when she realized what turned into going on earlier than pushing Sultan Mohammed off her.
She additionally attempted to take an image of the 25-yr-vintage earlier than he left her room and later filmed a video describing what had occurred, jurors had been advised.
The alleged sufferer additionally spoke to a friend, and campus security at the University of Essex has been alerted.
Ipswich Crown Court heard how Mohammed, who denies rape on October three, had “in all likelihood been searching out some type of sexual encounter.”
He had come upon an unlocked door to the scholar accommodation at the Colchester campus and allegedly entered the slumbering scholar’s room.
‘ON HUNT FOR A PARTY’
Prosecutor Andrew Thompson said: “The first she knew of the defendant was while she woke shortly after 5 am that morning, reputedly from a deep sleep, to find an odd male on the pinnacle of her bed raping her.”
Jurors have been instructed that Mohammed, who isn’t always an Essex University student, attempted to bluff his way out of the situation by claiming he had bought a drink for her in advance in the nighttime.
After he left, he was visible on CCTV attempting different doorways and home windows at the campus – with a handprint located by police officers, the court heard.
When he turned into interviewed by of police, Mohammed claimed he had been to a nightclub on campus earlier than climbing over a relaxed gate into student accommodation searching for a party.
He stated he heard you tune, so he knocked on the lady’s door and was invited in. She then allegedly stripped and instigated intercourse.
Mohammed, of Colchester, Essex, claimed he stopped having intercourse with her because he felt uncomfortable when she asked his name greater than once.
The trial continues.
