A MAN has gone on trial accused of raping a former special needs pupil at his Huddersfield flat.
The woman, who is now 21 but described as `vulnerable and naive', was allegedly chatted up by John Hanrahan and taken to his flat in Holme Park Court, Berry Brow, in May.
Prosecutor Gerald Hendron told a jury at Bradford Crown Court yesterday that Hanrahan, 20, tried to chat up the woman, in spite of her repeated requests for him to go away.
She went to Huddersfield bus station intending to travel back to her home in Bradford.
But after missing her bus she ended up getting on one to Holmfirth.
Hanrahan sat next to her.
They eventually got off at Berry Brow and went to his 10th-floor flat.
Mr Hendron said Hanrahan tried to take the woman's lower clothing off.
But she resisted and he eventually put her on a sofa bed.
"She was struggling to resist and saying get off. She was crying," said Mr Hendron.
"She was saying `I don't want it. I don't want it'.
"The defendant said there was no point in screaming as no-one would hear her.
"He told her that if she didn't let him have sex he would do it again and again and he didn't want to her hear whinging."
Mr Hendron said a security guard at the flats called police after becoming worried when he saw Hanrahan arriving with the woman.
Later that evening two officers went to Hanrahan's flat.
They found the woman naked in the bath.
She allegedly told police: "I didn't want him to do it. He wouldn't leave me alone."
Mr Hendron said the woman had been bleeding as a result of having sex and Hanrahan had run the bath for her.
He said they were taking a bath together when the police arrived and that sex had been with her consent.
Hanrahan has pleaded not guilty to charges of rape and false imprisonment.
His trial is expected to last the rest of the week.
