A drunken teenage undergraduate went out ‘on the pull’ and took a young man home for sex but changed her mind and later accused him of raping her, a court heard yesterday.
The woman did not know Lewis Tappenden, 24, but they began kissing less than a minute after starting to dance together in a nightclub.
She willingly got into bed naked with him at her halls of residence, but the jury was told she ‘had the right to change her mind’.
The prosecution claimed she said ‘no’ but Tappenden held her down to have sex, and he was later ejected by security after she alerted flatmates to his presence in her room.
But Tappenden, who had recently been a student of York St John University, where his 18-year-old ‘victim’ was a first-year undergraduate, insisted she consented and he was innocent.
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