A man has gone on trial accused of plying a teenage girl with alcohol before raping her.

James Dean, of Hermitage Street, Rishton, gave the teenage girl ‘neat vodka’ after a night out in Accrington and then raped her when she passed out, it was claimed in court.

Dean, 23, denies two counts of rape at Burnley Crown Court and claims the complainant consented.

Mark Lamberty, prosecuting, said the alleged incident followed a night out at a pub.

The jury heard CCTV showed the complainant ‘extremely drunk’.

Mr Lamberty told the jury: “What the complainant says in her interview to police is that they were alone downstairs in the house on the sofa.

“They started drinking the vodka, initially strong drink and then with some mixers.

“The defendant then drank the vodka neat and was urging her to do the same.

“She did and that was her last memory until waking up later in the day.”

Mr Lamberty said the complainant woke up fully clothed but without a piece of underwear and later that day made a complaint to a friend.

He said: “She was scared. She said that [the defendant} said he was going to have sex with her. He had given her vodka and she had blacked out.”

Mr Lamberty said the friend told the complainant to tell her mum however she was ‘reluctant to do this’.

When interviewed by police, Mr Dean said he had gone to the pub and had ‘looked after her as she was drunk’.

Mr Lamberty claimed Mr Dean said in the interview that she later ‘sobered up a bit’ and was ‘affectionate to him and made sexual advances to him’ before they had consensual sex.

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