A pharmaceuticals adviser dressed as James Bond raped a woman afterwards she was beatific home from a adorned dress Christmas affair for actuality too drunk, a cloister heard.
Rowan Nidd, 40, took the bagged woman aback to his burst and approved to accept sex with her aback she “collapsed” on to his bed, it is said.
When she came annular aloof afterwards 5am, she texted a acquaintance to say Nidd had been “trying to accept sex with me”, adding: “I don’t apperceive how I got here.”
Blackfriars acme cloister heard Nidd donned a James Bond apparel as he and the woman partied with accompany at a “heroes and villains” adorned dress back-bite at the Monument pub in December 2015.
Prosecutor Alisdair Smith said the woman, who cannot be identified, had bashed gin and tonics, beer and Prosecco, and appeared to be the worse for abrasion as they headed for an after-party at about 2am.
“By the end of the black it was bright she was bashed and not absolutely able to attending afterwards herself”, he said.
Nidd, a high-flying adviser who has formed for biologic firms including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Volt Pharma Associates, was asked to booty her home, but instead he ordered an Uber and took her to his burst in Canonbury.
“He took her aback to his flat, she has a ambiguous bond of accession and actuality led into the flat, again the aperture actuality opened into his bedroom”, Mr Smith told the jury.
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“When she got into the bedroom, she artlessly burst on to the bed on top of the covers.
“She has a bond of him aggravating to actuate her to get beneath the covers, but she told him she aloof capital to sleep.”
She claims Nidd, who took off his James Bond apparel and got into bed cutting a bodice and boxer shorts, again pulled off her underwear and approved to accept sex with her as she lay on the bed absolutely clothed.
“She was not responding to his advances, and he must’ve accepted that”, added Mr Smith.
The prosecutor said the woman told badge she had flirted with Nidd at the affair the antecedent evening, but was not absorbed in accepting sex with him.
“Alcohol played a allotment in these contest and you will charge to accede what bodies had to alcohol and what aftereffect it had on them”, said Mr Smith.
“People were drinking, there was dancing activity on, and some flirting amid people. (She) has never hidden the actuality she flirted with Mr Nidd at the party.”
The cloister heard one of Nidd’s friends, afterwards cogent him to booty the woman home, beatific a argument saying: “Hey mate, let me apperceive aback you get (her) cautiously home, she needs to be taken home to abstaining up.”
He after told badge he took her to his burst because she was clumsy in the auto to acquaint him area she lived.
After the declared rape, she messaged a acquaintance to say: “Woke up at Rowan’s, I don’t apperceive what to do. He’s been aggravating to accept sex with me, I’ve aloof been lying actuality acquisitive he would stop. I don’t apperceive how I got here.”
She added: “Just backward still but he wouldn’t stop, he has taken my underwear off. I don’t apperceive what to do.”
Nidd was arrested a anniversary after and denied aggravating to accept sex with the woman, cogent detectives any animal acquaintance was instigated by her.
He said she had rubbed adjoin him in bed but this may accept been accidental, and he additionally claimed she had put her duke bottomward his trousers during the adorned dress party.
Nidd, who now lives in St Albans, denies rape, attempted rape, advance by penetration, and animal assault.
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