Rough sleeper Wesley Roden, 33, was on the run from police when he stumbled upon the 18 year-old being raped by a mystery male in Victoria Embankment Gardens and asked: “Can I have a go,” the trial has been told.
He was arrested the next day by PC Ryan McKinley, who told the Southwark Crown Court jury: “He was a little bit too jovial about it. Like it was banter.
“He was not well kept. He had clearly been living out for some considerable time. He fist pumps the other male and says ‘get me involved’ while that male is raping the girl. There’s clearly no consent there.”
Roden, of Museum Street, Warrington, who the trial heard has twenty previous criminal convictions, including assault; theft; harassment; criminal damage and threatening behaviour, has pleaded not guilty to raping the young woman on August 16, 2019.
The complainant and two female friends drank vodka, beer and cider as they travelled from the outskirts of north London to Charing Cross superclub Heaven, where one of the other girls is refused admittance, due to intoxication.
Later police tests also reveal the complainant had consumed cannabis, cocaine and ketamine and her blood alcohol level would result in a “significant degree of intoxication.”
She split with her friends when they tried to sober up in McDonald’s and was caught on CCTV walking from Heaven to the small closed park around 2.40am with a mystery male, still being hunted by police.
The art student gave a video-recorded statement to police after she and a good Samaritan waved down officers, which was played to the jury.
“The snapshot I have in my head is lying on the grass in a park with a man over me and feeling pain around the hips,” the teenager explained, confirming she had little memory of how she got there.
“I remember lying on the grass and my underwear and tights were around my ankles and my legs were pushed up.
“The first man, I don’t remember his face. I could feel him having sex with me and a pain in my hips.
“It felt surreal and I want ten out of ten for drunk.
“I remember his body moving over me and sexual moaning and him holding me down on my arm and I have a bruise where he held me.
“My knees were up to my chest and I was just wanting for it to be over and was blacking in and out, distracting myself.
“Another man came over with a beard and said: ‘Can I have a go?’ and the first man says: ‘That’s a bit weird,’ and then said: ‘Once I leave you can do what you want with her.’
“The second man looked at me and saw I wouldn’t do anything or stop it.
“He was over me and then he was gone. I woke up on the grass and realised everything that had happened.
“I was on the grass and clicking in my head all the snapshots leading up and then ran to the gate and was banging on the gate and I told a man I needed help and to call the police.
“I don’t remember how I got to the park, I did not know where I was or where my friends were and I was scared and confused.”
Roden does not deny having unprotected sex with the young woman - confirmed via DNA - and immediately gave his version of events when police found him sleeping nearby the next day.
“He did not look well put together, his clothes were scruffy,” the complainant told the police.
“When he said: ‘Can I have a go?’ I was thinking: ’No, no, no,’ but I don’t know if I said it. I felt like I was paralysed.”
Prosecutor Ben Temple told the jury Roden was questioned by police. “He suggested in interview the complainant was an enthusiastic partner who instigated sexual activity and said: ‘She had the time of her life.’
“He said she was a slut and that she told him she had sex with strangers every weekend and was a: ’Twisted little slag.’
“He can dish it out in interview, but is not prepared to put his money where his mouth is,” added the prosecutor, referring to Roden’s decision not to give evidence to the jury.
He also told police: “She is trying to stitch me up,” insisting she physically pulled him towards her by his crotch, gave him oral sex and demanded: “Come and f*** me.”
Trial continues…………..
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