"We Had Consensual Sex" Accused Rapist Tells Jury

A Scottish businessman has denied raping a drunken City worker in his hotel room, insisting the pair had consensual sex.

The 26 year-old woman, who enjoyed an all-day brandy and wine celebration with office colleagues, claims she was raped by graduate William Paton, 30.

Privately-educated Paton, who attended £12,00 a-year Hutcheson’s Grammar School and the University of Strathclyde told a jury he had little memory of the night.

He had travelled down from his home in Fruin Avenue, Newton Mearns to attend an event hosted by a City of London livery company and met the woman while out drinking afterwards.

Paton told Blackfriars Crown Court: “I would never, ever take advantage of a woman. There’s absolutely no way that I would rape any woman.”

The mathematics grad, who works for his family’s nationwide taxi insurance and maintenance company, said: “She didn’t wake up with me on top of her. We had consensual sex.”

Three days later he was arrested on the front driveway of his family’s £400,000 house by four waiting police officers.

“When they said rape I took a few steps back and thought: ‘There’s something not right here. They’ve got the wrong guy.’

“In the journey in the police car I thought there must have been some mistake and was later told I’d been id’d forensically, but couldn’t remember being with a girl.”

He later retraced his steps that night with his father in an attempt to jog his memory.

“The one thing I can remember is her getting out of bed and leaving quietly. She did not wake up having sex with me.”

Paton told the jury even though he had no recollection of being with the complainant there must have been consent because he is not a rapist.

He has pleaded not guilty to one count of rape on March 4, last year.

The trial continues……….