BOURNEMOUTH STUDENT ALLEGEDLY ‘DRAGGED FROM NIGHTCLUB AND RAPED’
A MAN raped a vulnerable student after dragging her out of a Bournemouth nightclub and taking her back to his flat, a court heard.Samir Muhammad, originally from Sudan, allegedly forced the young woman to undress before pinning her down and raping her despite her pleas to stop.
Jurors were told the woman managed to raise the alarm with friends after using Snapchat’s location tool, but only after Muhammad prevented her leaving and tried to stop her answering calls.
Prosecutor Louise McCullough said Muhammad targeted the student while she was out at Cameo nightclub with friends.
She said: "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.
He told her to get undressed.
She said 'no, I don't want to' but he ignored this and simply told her to relax.
He grabbed both her wrists and pushed her down.
Her efforts to resist him were futile as he simply overpowered her." The court heard Muhammad, whose immigration status is unknown, put his number in her phone, enabling police to trace him afterwards.
Jurors were played the complainant’s police interview.
She told officers she felt 'really drunk' after having only one drink in the club.
"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.
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.
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." The woman said she borrowed his charger to power her phone, then used Snapchat to send her location to friends.
Before they arrived, she persuaded Muhammad to let her leave Sandringham House at 5.50am.
Muhammad, now aged 21, denies two counts of rape, claiming the sex was consensual.
The trial continues.
