NHS GP practice manager Morgan Bowen-Perkins, 32, was enjoying his third date with the young woman - now a qualified doctor herself - with the pair bonding over their shared interest in the world of medicine.
The University of Plymouth business management graduate, of Kingston Road, Leatherhead, Surrey has pleaded not guilty to two counts of raping the woman at a Clapham Premier Inn on March 19, 2022.
They arrived at the hotel at approximately 4am, with Bowen-Perkins forcing the front doors open, the Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court jury were told and ended up in bed together.
“I had pyjamas on and he completely stripped off and was quite forcefully affectionate with me, kissing me and making me feel like I owed him for being there,” she told the trial in a police video-recorded interview.
“He was very insistent and kept asking and asking and putting pressure on me and eventually I gave in because it was the easiest thing to do.
“He grabbed my hair and kept pulling it. I asked him to stop, but he then started forcing my head down with his hand.
“He climbed on top of me and started having sex with me and was being really, really rough, unnecessarily rough and I asked him to stop being rough, but he was not getting the message.
“He grabbed me by the back of my neck and squeezed and the pain of that and the pain of the sex, I completely froze and just wanted for it to be over.”
Bowen-Perkins’ lawyer Catherine Purnell stated: “You were showing no signs of reluctance at any point. You never said ’stop’ during the course of sex.”
“I disagree, I said ’stop’ three times,” insisted the complainant, now in the witness box for cross-examination, becoming so tearful and emotional her evidence was halted halfway through.
The pair had enjoyed two previous pleasant dates and Bowen-Perkins invited the woman to a friend’s house party, booking the hotel room in advance.
“There was an offer for me to go to back to the hotel for convenience more than anything,” she told the trial. “He was quite drunk and we had been drinking.”
During the course of the evening, which included partying at the Brixton Jamm nightclub, she admitted consuming two Bacardi’s; two tequila shots and two margarita’s
“I was drunk, but not as drunk as he was and he was also smoking weed,” she said of Bowen-Perkins, describing him as ‘eight or nine out of ten drunk’.
“He was playing drinking games at the party and I felt very uncomfortable. They were being really loud and there was no embarrassment that he was keen on me, that was evident to anybody in the room.
“He was quite insistent that I went back to the hotel with him and I did and we got an Uber to the Premier Inn, where he kind of forced the doors open and was being loud and aggressive.”
When cross-examined the complainant agreed that there was consensual kissing and affection between the pair as they made their way to the hotel room.
Bowen-Perkins says this continued in the hotel room, with the young woman undressing herself and getting into bed with him.
“I made it clear I was quite tired, it was 4am at this point. He started putting his hands inside my pyjama bottoms, touching me everywhere and I knew what he wanted by kissing me, he had intentions,” she told the trial.
“I was really uncomfortable with this situation and struggling and I froze a little bit.
“Eventually it was over and I excused myself and went to the bathroom and sat on the toilet seat and cried. I went back to the bed and tried to isolate myself as much as I could by staying near the edge.
“The next morning I asked him if he was always so rough when he was drunk and he said, ‘yes’ that’s who he was’.”
She later got a friend to tell Bowen-Perkins she did not want to see him again. “He put it down to me, saying I was being delicate and sensitive and was damaged before he met me.”
Seven month later, on October 11, 2022 she reported Bowen-Perkins to the police and made her statement eight days after that.
“I tried to get over it and tried to make it okay, but I just couldn’t and that is why I am here now,” she told the officers. “It has been seven months and I am still having problems sleeping, still having problems with intimacy and struggling to feel safe.
“He was really, really insistent that it was something I do, but I was not in the mood for sex and it got progressively rougher and it was like I was irrelevant,” she added.
“He had one hand on the side of my neck and the other on my hip, holding it in place and I asked him three times to stop. I couldn’t say a thing and I was just trying not to cry.”
Bowen-Perkins says they spent the rest of the night cuddling, but the woman replied: “We were not cuddling. He was holding me.”
They exchanged text messages over the next few days and Bowen-Perkins wrote: ‘Thanks for last night beautiful. Sorry if the sex was intense.’
He also wrote: ‘I got a bit carried away,’ and ‘I can’t believe I messed this up.’
Trial continues………..
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