School teacher was 'enthusiastic participant' in sex session, rape trial toldA SCHOOL teacher who says she was unconscious when she was raped by two men on a park bench in Bradford was an "enthusiastic participant" in the sex session, it was alleged yesterday.
Cross-examining her, barrister Elyas Patel suggested to the jury she had instigated and encouraged what happened.
Mr Patel was asking questions on behalf of Wakar Akhtar, 21, of Hudson Avenue, Canterbury, Bradford.
Akhtar and three other Bradford men all deny conspiracy to rape the teacher, between May 25 and 26.
The jury at Bradford Crown Court has heard that she became intoxicated on a night out in a pub in Leeds and was unable to remember calling a minicab to take her back to Bradford.
She left her bag, jacket and phone behind and was "talking gibberish" when she left her friends without saying goodbye.
The woman told the police she thought her drink might have been spiked.
She says she came round on a metal bench in Great Horton Park to find a man having sex with her. Another man, sitting beside her, told her he had just had sex with her.
Also on trial are private hire driver Tamseel Virk, 42, of Marten Road, Canterbury, Bradford; Azad Raja, 38, of Hudson Avenue, Canterbury, and Najeem Ul-Saeed, 31, of Beaumont Road, Girlington, Bradford.
Virk is accused of ringing Ul-Saeed while he was driving the woman from Leeds, who in turn arranged for him to 'deliver' the intoxicated woman to Akhtar and Raja, who then raped her in turn.
Andrew Kershaw, prosecuting, said DNA evidence supported the woman's evidence that sexual activity took place with both men.
He alleged that Ul-Saeed then turned up at the park, "too late physically to join in the rape that he had set up".
After the jury had watched the woman's recorded police interview, she answered questions in court from behind a red screen.
Mr Patel put it to her: "What happened in that park was sex, pure and simple, nothing more and nothing less?"
He continued: "I suggest it was sex between consenting adults, all of whom were active, voluntary and enthusiastic participants in what went on?"
The woman denied this, saying she had never done anything like that before in her life.
She was intoxicated, scared and left bruised and in pain.
Mr Patel went on: "Are you crying rape because you regret what happened? Is that what this is all about?"
The teacher told the court: "Definitely not. This is the most humiliating experience of my life."
She added: "It was life destroying. I did not expect anything like this to happen to me."
The trial continues.
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