Missing Manchester Woman Cleared Of Hospital Race Charge

University College Hospital

A missing Manchester woman, accused of racially abusing muslims when police took her to hospital, has had the case against her dropped.

Katie Fanning, 30, of Bourton Drive, Belle Vue never appeared at north London’s Highbury Corner Magistrates Court due to mental health issues.

After several adjournments the Crown Prosecution Service eventually offered no evidence against the absent defendant.

Fanning had been charged with racially and religiously aggravated harassment at University College Hospital, Euston Road on May 18, last year.

Prosecutor Mr. Gaspard Davies-Jones told the court: “This is a serious allegation involving police officers and hospital staff.

“The defendant threatened to kill two witnesses and the police officers and shouted racial slurs.”

Fanning was reported missing on May 18, last year and was visited by police officers the same day.

“The police were made aware and attended a location in central London, where they identified the defendant and she was compliant and co-operative with the police.

“As she is taken to the ambulance she threatens to harm herself and is detained for her own protection.

“At some point she asks for a cigarette and exited the ambulance and asks for a lighter.

“As one of the officer’s reached into a bag the defendant lunged at her and she is restrained with handcuffs.

“She is struggling and swearing and attempted to bang her head on the floor and attempted to bite officers.”

Fanning was taken to University College Hospital in Fitzrovia.

“Throughout the journey she is struggling and swearing and proceeds to assault one officer by trying to bite him,” explained Mr. Davies-Jones.

“She then shouts: “Do you know how high my IQ is? I’m going to memorise your numbers.

“Do you have kids? I’m going to kill all of them. Are you a paedophile? you f***ing islamic bitch.

“I’m going to get the guys of Manchester to firebomb all the police stations in Manchester.

“You evil islamic paedophile. I’m going to send the worst paedo for your kids.”

Mr. Davies-Jones added: “Once inside the hospital Fanning took offence to the staff nurse, who is muslim and was wearing a headscarf.

“She shouted: ‘Get the f*** out. Muslim indoctrination is evil.’

“She then threatens violence throughout.”

When later quizzed by police Fanning replied ‘no comment’ to all questions.

She has been diagnosed with bi-polar and post-traumatic stress.

Her defence lawyer said she was suffering from multiple mental health issues and a consultant psychiatrist concluded it was not appropriate for her to attend court.

The court heard an account that Fanning had placed a ligature around her neck and attempted to commit suicide.

That prompted a Home Intervention Treatment Team who supervise Fanning daily at her home.

They also concluded it would be a risk to take her to court.

Footie Star's Car Crash: Private Prosecution Dropped

A private prosecution against Crystal Palace footballer Pape Souare for the car crash that nearly ended his career has been dropped.

The 28 year-old left-back appeared at Isleworth Crown Court last year accused of dangerous driving by another motorist involved in the motorway smash.

The Senegal international suffered a broken right thigh and jaw and had to be cut from the wreckage of his £135,000 black Mercedes G63 SUV and airlifted to hospital. 

The court has now revealed the summons brought against the star of driving dangerously on the M4 on September 11, 2016 was dismissed earlier this year.

Souare always intended to fight the case and was prepared for a jury trial at the court.

The prosecution was brought by Darshan Dube, 35, of Cranbourne Road, Slough, who was charged by the police with driving his 2.5 litre BMW without due care and attention.

Souare, who recently returned to first-team action after 373 days out, was a prosecution witness in that case.

He lives in a Thameside apartment in Lambeth Embankment and was a £3.5m signing by the Eagles from French club Reims in January, 2015.

After dropping off a friend at Heathrow Airport he crashed the vehicle into the central reservation and firefighters had to slice off the roof to rescue him from the wreckage.

He was taken by helicopter to the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel.

Eddie Catz Kid's Soft Playcentre Boss Spied On Girls And Women Changing Clothes

Camera Lover: Johnson

The wealthy boss of a well-known children’s soft play centre chain is facing jail after filming women staff undressing and female toilet users through peepholes at his family-friendly business. 

Darren Johnson, 51, resigned in disgrace from Eddie Catz after his double life was exposed when caught filming two 14 year-old girls changing in a swimming pool cubicle.

He founded the nationwide play centre, which has a tie-in with Mothercare, with his wife Maria over a decade ago and the couple share a £1.3m home.

Police raided the house and seized nearly 700 clips, mostly made up of twelve years of recording his Earlsfield centre’s female staff changing room and toilets.

At Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court Johnson, of Rodway Road, Putney Village pleaded guilty to five counts of voyeurism for sexual gratification between January 1, 2005 and June 12, 2017.

His double-life was exposed when the teenage girls spotted Johnson filming them with his iPhone under the cubicle divider at Putney Leisure Centre on June 5, last year.

Court Date: Johnson

A previous court heard was told the girls were “very distressed” and police raided Johnson’s home on June 12.

Officers seized his computers, where they found images of women undressing during years of secret filming at Eddie Catz centre in Earlsfield.

Prosecutor Miss Lauren Sales told the court: “Two fourteen year-old girls had attended a school swimming class and reported seeing an iPhone 6 pointing at them under their cubicle while they were in a state of undress.”

They did not see Johnson, but spotted his distinctive rucksack in the cubicle, which was later picked up on the leisure centre’s CCTV.

“He was observed on CCTV walking around the leisure centre with no particular purpose,” added Miss Sales.

“He is the director of Eddie Catz, a soft play centre for children and more images were found that he had taken in public lavatories open to both adults and children at the centre via peepholes. 

“There are also images from the adult female changing room at the centre.

“They were found on computers, but from the way they were taken some would have been taken from a phone.”

There were also recordings of other unidentified women Johnson had filmed in the leisure centre’s cubicles over the previous six months.

Johnson’s lawyer Mr. Simon Ray said his client was married with children and of good character and receiving counselling from a psychosexual therapist.

“He resigned immediately as a director, gave up his shares and has not set foot in any Eddie Catz centre since.”

Judge Timothy Lamb QC bailed Johnson until August 28 for sentencing.

“I have not done a voyeurism case this extensive for a while, but the guidelines point towards custody,” he announced. “The likely penalties include an immediate custodial sentence.”

Until his sentencing Johnson is banned from all Eddie Catz centres; mixed use and womens’ changing-rooms; contacting victims, staff and witnesses and using a camera, phone or video recorder to take images.

NOT GUILTY: Rolls Royce Union Rep Cleared Of Hotel Room Sex Charge

A Rolls-Royce union rep, who climbed into bed with a drunken married woman at a hotel conference and fondled her between her legs, was cleared of sexually assaulting her.

Toolmaker Jon Brough, 46, who consumed ten pints during the evening, told police the woman had been flirting with him and sitting on his lap before they retired to her room at midnight.

The complainant, 46, had no recollection of the evening and the prosecution brought the case on the basis she was too drunk to consent.

Brough, of Winterley Drive, Accrington, Lancashire, who works at the company’s Barnoldswick site was found not guilty by an Inner London Crown Court jury of assault by penetration at Surrey’s Esher Place Hotel on October 4, 2016.

Much of the prosecution’s case was based on Brough’s own police interview in which he gave a full account of retiring to the woman’s room, where he admitted consensual sexual activity took place.

He gave the same account to the jury and a witness also saw them with their arms around each other in the hotel’s reception area earlier in the evening.

Brough had been at the hotel event as a representative of the Unite union.

The jury took less than three hours to find Brough not guilty, indicating even earlier they had a majority verdict.

The defendant was visibly relieved and his brother, who has been staying in a caravan with him on the outskirts of London during the trial, expressed his relief from the public gallery.

Prosecutor Catherine Patterson told the trial: “She consumed a considerable quantity of alcohol. She was so intoxicated she did not have the ability to consent to any sexual activity.

“Mr. Brough could see she was in a state of intoxication and decided to take advantage.”

After returning home the complainant reported him to the police two weeks later and Brough was questioned in Manchester on December 20, 2016.

“He admitted putting his finger into her vagina, but said she had consented to doing that.

“He said she was very drunk, siting on people’s laps, including his. He had seen her fall off a chair and saw her laughing and giggling and thought they would go back to her room for sex.”

Brough told the officers: “There was sexual activity. Mutual kissing and passionate touching.”

Ms Patterson added: “He also told police he had tried to pull her knickers and trousers down, but she would not allow it and in the morning seemed angry with herself.”

Another witness described the complainant as having “slurred speech,” “staggering about” and “looking very drunk.”

Another saw her chatting with Brough in a corridor. “He says she appeared to be leaning on him and another witness says they were in reception with their arms around each other.”

In a police video interview played to the jury the woman said she recalled drinking three pints of cider, a glass of wine and a vodka and coke that night.

“I got very drunk, very quickly,” she told the trial, recalling at one point she spilled alcohol over herself.

“I remember waking up and I was still in clothes. My jeans were unzipped and my bra unclipped.

“I don’t know how he got there. I was shocked to see him there and said: ‘F*** off.’

“I don’t know what happened, I panicked, I was stressed and felt really ashamed of myself. I’m married.”

Olympic Equestrian Daubed Ex-Lover Lord Prior's House With Pigs Blood Insults

The ex-Olympic showjumping lover of Tory Lord David Prior daubed “Whore,” ‘Slut” and other explicit insults in pigs blood at their former love-nest when she caught him cheating with another peer’s wife.

Using five litres of blood from a butcher’s and garden sprayer Lizzie Purbrick, 63, also wrote: “Big Dick Lord” and apparently referring to his new lover: “Mags Wet Between The Legs.”

Purbrick, of Northgate Hall Farm, The Street, Warham, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk pleaded guilty to causing criminal damage to beddings, walls and floors to the Kennington pied a terre.

At Camberwell Green Magistrates Court a charge of burgling the Cardigan Street, Lambeth, house with intent to do unlawful damage on May 9 was dropped.

Purbrick, a member of Great Britain’s 1980 equestrian team, also drew a large penis in blood on the floor of the property, which she had the key to.

She was placed on a 12-month community order, which includes 120 hours community service work and must pay £85 costs and an £85 victim surcharge.

She was also served with a two-year restraining order prohibiting contact with Lord Prior or visiting the address, plus his properties in Beccles, Suffolk and Norfolk.  

A neighbour called the police when they saw blood oozing from under the front door onto the pavement outside and officers, fearing a major crime, forced entry.

As well as the daubing they found blood emptied over the beds of both bedrooms and over Lord Prior’s clothing.

“The whole thing looks like it has been lifted out of a Jilly Cooper novel. An Olympic show jumper, a Lord and member of the Cabinet,” said her lawyer Simon Nicholls. 

“Putting it as delicately as I can she found him in the arms of another woman, who is married to a member of the House of Lords.”

Purbrick caught Lord Prior with the married woman when she let herself into another of the peer’s properties in East Anglia to collect belongings.

Prosecutor Mr. Alex Du Sautoy told the court: “Mrs Purbrick is a former partner of the complainant, David Prior. 

“At 5.30pm she entered Mr. Prior’s apartment using a key she still had from the relationship.”

The court heard she daubed the insults and also bloodied one of Lord Prior’s suitcases, leaving him a £1,000 cheque.

“She tipped the remaining blood onto the floor.”

The police were called at around 10.30pm by a concerned neighbour. “They saw what they thought was a male entering the property and heard loud music.

“They saw a red liquid appear to come under the door and onto the pavement.”

Purbrick confessed the next day after giving herself up at King’s Lynn Police Station.

“At sixty-three years of age she acts in a way that is completely out of character,” added Mr. Nicholls. “She has gone to King’s Lynn Police Station at the first opportunity and admitted the damage she’s done, no excuses.

“This was a unique one-off incident by this woman. She has now identified the relationship is over.

“The damage to the flat she describes as cathartic and now is the time to move on.

“This is a woman who was emotionally vulnerable who believed the relationship had longer than the day it was terminated.

“She caused that damage, there’s no argument she did it. She took the blood there and daubed the words on the walls and on the floor.”

He told the court Purbrick now plans to spend more time in South Africa, where he two businessmen sons and “estranged” husband, a retired British Army officer, live.

Purbrick won the Amanda Dish at 1984’s Badmington Horse Trials and in 1978 competed at the World Championships in Lexington, Kentucky.

In 1981 she was a member of the gold medal-winning British team at the European Championships.

Lord Prior’s official title is Baron Prior of Brampton and the Charterhouse School and Cambridge-educated peer married Caroline Holmes on St. Valentine’s Day, 1987 and they have a son and daughter.

He was a Conservative MP for North Norfolk between 1997 and 2001 is currently Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in the House of Lords.

The former investment banker, 63, is the chairman of University College Hospital and was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health in David Cameron’s government.

Probation Officer Paul Leach told the court: “She told me she travelled from Norfolk to another of the victim’s properties to collect belongings and found Mr. Prior with another woman.

“As describes herself as being ‘beyond upset’ and cried all the next day.”

She obtained 8 litres of pigs blood from a butcher friend. “She says the victim in this case likes pigs, has something to do with pigs and that’s why she used it.

“She says the balance of her mind was disturbed and she was contemplating self-harm and describes her actions as a temporary madness.”

Purbrick’s cancer-suffering brother shot himself three days ago and she is currently living in a caravan.

The court heard she recalls her actions like a “surreal dream” and regrets them.

District Judge Susan Green told Purbrick: “I don’t accept this was spontaneous. It was planned and pre-meditated.”

She described the use of pigs bloods as “calculated and extensive.”

'Black Magic' Fraud Suspect Wanted For £400K Swindle

An alleged 'Black Magic' fraudster is on the run after a middle-aged woman was conned out of over £400,000 she paid in remedy fees.

Muhammed Ashraf, 37, of no fixed abode, is wanted for questioning by officers from Hounslow, west London for his part in defrauding the 57-year-old woman over a two-year period between April, 2013 and November, 2015.

The victim reported to officers on November 25, 2015 that in March, 2013 she received a leaflet through her letterbox claiming to provide services to people suffering from 'dangerous black magic.'

In June, 2013 the victim contacted the mobile number on the leaflet and spoke to a man to enquire about using his service.

She agreed to meet an unknown man at a property on Delamere Road, Southall, where she paid him £350 in return for his help.

She was led to believe this was a one-off payment and was not told that the fees would increase in the future.

A week later the suspect contacted the victim and told her that her problems were too complicated and he required more money to help her.

He stated he needed an extra £90,000. The victim questioned this, but agreed to pay £60,000 cash instead.

From then until November, 2015 the suspect and the victim met approximately once every two weeks, and on each occasion he demanded more money.

Sometimes when the man was not able to meet, Ashraf would attend instead and collect the money.

Later in the month, Ashraf told the victim that the man had passed away.

He then made her delete any contact number or messages from him from her phone.

She then reported the matter to police.

Three weeks after speaking to the police, the victim saw Ashraf driving a blue Hyundai with the registration number AD14 NAZ in Southall.

This was the last known sighting of Ashraf.

Detective Constable Ben Lawrence-Smith, from Hounslow CID, said: "Although this offence happened a number of years ago, we still appeal to the public for their help in locating Ashraf.

"Ashraf is an Asian male who at the time of his involvement in defrauding the victim had a beard and moustache. He is known to sometimes use the surname Ali, and may be residing in the Midlands."

Anyone with any information can contact police at Hounslow CID on 020 8247 6160 or tweet @MetCC.

To give information anonymously contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or online at crimestoppers-uk.org.

'Sickie' NHS Nurse Jailed For £32K Fraud

An NHS Neurology nurse, who pocketed £32,000 in sick pay while moonlighting via two recruiting agencies, has been jailed for 16 months.

Vivian Coker, 53, of Samuel Lewis Trust Estate, Warner Road, Camberwell claimed to her bosses she was unfit to work for nearly two years.

She was employed at Tooting's St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, but took sick leave between August 2014 and May 2016.

Coker was convicted of two counts of fraud by false representation at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court.

Afterwards, Richard Hampton the Head of Intelligence and Fraud Prevention said: “The nursing community is a vital ally in the fight against NHS fraud.

“If you spot something that doesn't seem quite right and could be a fraud, please do report it to our reporting line.

“We believe working whilst sick fraud is still under-reported and it is in all our interests that the perpetrators are identified and prosecuted.

“We recognise that the vast majority of NHS nurses are honest, dedicated and hardworking.”

Algerian Illegal With Fake ID Jailed For Nightbus Sex Assault On Young Woman

An Algerian illegal overstayer, who assumed a new identity, has been locked-up for pursuing a lone young woman on a night bus and forcibly kissing her.

Youva Boudaoud, 30, used graphic sexually-explicit language towards the 21 year-old, who was forced to change seats, but was followed by the defendant.

French-speaking kitchen porter Boudaoud, of Balham High Street, Balham used a bogus Belgian identity card to remain in the UK and illegally work at a local restaurant.

He pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the woman on the N155 bus at approximately 4.15am on November 19, last year.

Boudaoud, who needed an interpreter, also pleaded guilty to possessing the false id card between January 1 and April 24 with intent.

He also admitted fraud by false representation between the same dates, namely using the id card to obtain employment and possessing £3,000 in criminal property, namely his wages on April 25.

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police’s Roads and Transport Policing Command released images of Boudaoud from the bus’s CCTV on February 21.

He was identified to the police by his female boss, who had read the victim was left “very shaken”, and was arrested at his home address on April 24.

Judge Judith Coello told Boudaoud at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court yesterday: “This was a particularly unpleasant and nasty offence.

“You can accurately be described as a sex pest. You deliberately targeted this young woman on that bus and it must have been extremely frightening for her.

“You sat next to her and engaged in foul and disgusting language and first kissed her on the cheek and then on the lips.

‘This was disgusting, boorish, unacceptable behaviour. She had no escape and she was a lone female.”

Regarding the identity fraud the judge told him: “It was deliberate and calculated on your part.”

Boudaoud was sentenced to seventeen weeks imprisonment for the sexual assault, plus another twenty weeks to run consecutively for the identity fraud offences.

He will have to sign the sex offenders register for seven years.

Because the total sentence of thirty-seven weeks was below one year Boudaoud will avoid the automatic trigger for deportation to his native Algeria.

Notting Hill Carnival Charity Finance Boss Gets 6 Years For Swindling £784K

Exposed: Nadia Chase Ali

The trusted financial officer of a community charity that runs the Notting Hill Carnival and assists Grenfell survivors was jailed for six years today for swindling over three quarters of a million pounds.

Nadia Chase Ali, 34, holidayed with her boss while defrauding The Carnival Village Trust for two years, transferring sums to her four bank accounts on 530 occasions.

Approximately £30,000 ended up in her native Trinidad and Tobago and the mum-of-one has failed to offer a penny in compensation.

Chase Ali, of Bonchurch Road, North Kensington, who has shown no remorse, has left the charity financially crippled and owing thousands to the taxman.

She worked at The Tabernacle W11, a Grade II listed building in Powis Square, Notting Hill, which was also financed by the trust and provides multiple community services.

She pleaded guilty at Isleworth Crown Court to fraud by abuse of position between March 6, 2014 and December 2, 2016 to dishonestly make a gain of £784,262.56p.  

She also pleaded guilty to money laundering, namely transferring £30,000 in criminal property out of the UK and a jury convicted her of stealing financial documents and letters belong in to The Carnival Village Trust.

“This is a very serious crime, it is an attack on the community,” said Judge John Dennis. “None of that money has been recovered and has either been sent to the Caribbean or spent on personal items.”

Some of the money was spent by Chase Ali at retail shops in Trinidad and Tobago, plus Next and Argos and flights and beauty treatments.

“This defendant has used the funds of this charity as her private bank account,” said prosecutor Mr. Tyrone Silcott. “During the trial her behaviour was described as a breathtaking breach of trust. It was a betrayal.

‘She gave evidence in the face of overwhelming evidence and still does not accept responsibility for stealing the paperwork. She has shown absolutely no remorse for what she has done.

No Hiding Place: Ali Was Jailed

The trust is mainly funded by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the Arts Council.

“It is a significant part of the local community, a cultural hub,” added Mr. Silcott.

The Tabernacle’s director Matthew Philip says the charity provided services for local youths, the elderly and for those with addiction problems.

“This is a charity that has supported local people effected by the Grenfell fire. I feel betrayed by Nadia’s actions.”

Judge Dennis told an emotionless Chase Ali, dressed in a grey tracksuit: “What aggravates this case enormously is the damage you have done to the Tabernacle.

“I have heard with great sadness the effect which your gross dishonesty has had on that institution.

“It is the hub of community life in North Kensington, providing facilities to an enormous amount of people who need assistance.

“It may now be closed, owing large sums of money to the Inland Revenue and in VAT.

‘It was publicly-funded with money being poured in from the council and other bodies, money that you syphoned off.

“If the Tabernacle goes it will leave a gaping hole in North Kensington.

“You betrayed the trust that was placed in you by your employer, who was a friend that went on holiday with you. You cynically betrayed that trust.

“There is virtually no remorse expressed by you at all for this prolonged fraud of two years as you filleted this organisation.”

Her lawyer Exdol Mitchell told the court: “She is fearful of a custodial sentence for the impact it will have on her loved ones.

“She is not a wicked woman. It was by chance she came across how easy it was to commit these frauds.”

Chase Ali claims the money financed her late mother’s medical bills and care needed for her sickly father in Trinidad and Tobago, but the prosecution found no more than £20,000 was spent this way.

IT Expert Admits £62K 'Fraud' That Never Was

An IT expert had to admit a £62,160 fraud on world famous Moorfields eye hospital when a review revealed he invoiced for work in the name of an employee who had not carried it out.

However, Perry John Kennings, 45, of Wateringbury Road, East Malling, Kent, insists he completed the work himself and he was forced into the technical fraud due to the hospital's payment system.

A judge at Inner London Crown Court agreed and went outside the usual sentencing guidelines and conditionally discharged the married father-of-two for two years.

Jennings pleaded guilty to fraud against Moorfields NHS Trust between March 1 and October 31, 2015 by dishonestly abusing his position of technical delivery manager by submitting false invoices.

Prosecutor Mr. Alexander Agbamu told the court Jennings' company provided specialist IT services as an outside contractor and he was assisted by his employee Steve Gibson.

“He carried on submitting invoices to Moorfields, making it seem Steve Gibson was continuing to provide work, but he was not.

“A review of the invoices revealed the beneficiary was this defendant rather than Mr. Gibson. He claimed he was not trying to deceive the Trust and that the invoices would not have been paid if a name was not on the invoice.”

Jennings' QC William Boyce told the court: “He is skilled at IT. He is a high performer and never stops work and he was doing two jobs.

“Thinking Mr. Gibson was coming in he put his name on the invoices and continued doing the work. There is no loser, he's already performed seven to eight months unpaid work for the NHS Trust.

“He left that job, in his words to the police: 'A broken man' because he worked so hard for so long.”

Jennings says that not only was the work completed in the name of Mr. Gibson he has paid back full compensation to the Trust.

“The thought of him being separated from his wife and sons, aged nine and ten, has cut through this family like a visceral sword.

“It has been a complete disaster and every day has been agony for him.”

Judge Owen Davies QC told Jennings: 'I'm not going to send you to prison. You did do the work and the fraud is technical in nature.

“The identity was one you were not entitled to assume.

“You have never been in trouble before and it is very clear you are very talented in IT and well-regarded as someone who has made a great contribution to the lives of others.

“This case is so extraordinary.

“I'm sure the court will not see you again and that draws a line under the matter.”  

Boozy Rolls Royce Union Rep Denies Groping Hotel Woman

A Rolls-Royce union rep climbed into bed with a drunken married woman at a hotel conference and fondled her between her legs, a court heard yesterday.

Toolmaker Jon Brough, 46, who consumed ten pints during the evening, told police the woman had been flirting with him and sitting on his lap before they retired to her room at midnight.

Brough, of Winterley Drive, Accrington, Lancashire, who works at the company’s Barnoldswick site has pleaded not guilty at Inner London Crown Court to assault by penetration at Surrey’s Esher Place Hotel on October 4, 2016.

Prosecutor Catherine Patterson told the jury Rolls Royce funded a free open bar for an hour before the Unite Union dinner and the woman, 46, consumed more alcohol at a local pub, after which she remembers nothing until the next morning.

“She remembers waking up in the morning with her jeans unzipped, her bra unclipped and this defendant laying next to her.

“She sent a text reading ‘help’ to a colleague after realising that something had happened.

“She was shocked at seeing this defendant there and said: ‘You need to f*** off.’

“He replied: ‘You’ve sobered up’ and dressed and left the room.”

Hours earlier Brough and a colleague had escorted her to the room, with the other man recalling the defendant saying: “C’mon. This party hasn’t finished yet.”

Ms. Patterson explained: “She consumed a considerable quantity of alcohol. She was so intoxicated she did not have the ability to consent to any sexual activity.

“Mr. Brough could see she was in a state of intoxication and decided to take advantage.”

After returning home the complainant reported him to the police two weeks later and Brough was questioned in Manchester on December 20, 2016.

“He admitted putting his finger into her vagina, but said she had consented to doing that.

“He said she was very drunk, siting on people’s laps, including his. He had seen her fall off a chair and saw her laughing and giggling and thought they would go back to her room for sex.”

Brough told the officers: “There was sexual activity. Mutual kissing and passionate touching.”

Ms Patterson added: “He also told police he had tried to pull her knickers and trousers down, but she would not allow it and in the morning seemed angry with herself.”

A colleague of the complainant described her as having “slurred speech,” “staggering about” and “looking very drunk.”

Another saw her chatting with Brough in a corridor. “He says she appeared to be leaning on him and another witness says they were in reception with their arms around each other.”

The next morning a concerned colleague confronted Brough. “He shrugged his shoulders and said it was just some drunken flirting and she wouldn’t need the pill.”

In a police video interview played to the jury the woman said she recalled drinking three pints of cider, a glass of wine and a vodka and coke that night.

“I got very drunk, very quickly,” she told the trial, recalling at one point she spilled alcohol over herself.

“I remember waking up and I was still in clothes. My jeans were unzipped and my bra unclipped.

“I don’t know how he got there. I was shocked to see him there and said: ‘F*** off.’

“I don’t know what happened, I panicked, I was stressed and felt really ashamed of myself. I’m married.

“I think there was blood on the sheet and that concerned me. I thought: ‘what’s happened here?’

“Later I read a news report about ‘too drunk to consent’ and I thought: ‘Hello. That’s what happen to me. It’s not my fault.’

“Something’s happened and it’s not my fault. I don’t even remember talking to him, that’s why I’m shocked he got there.”

Trial continues…………..