A woman has told a jury of how she was raped on a street in Dover in the early hours of Christmas Day.

She said she was approached by two men, one of whom grabbed her and forced her to the ground and raped her. But she said she was not sure if she was raped by both men.

Tudor Tofoi, 20, of High Street, Dover, denied the rape when he appeared at Canterbury Crown Court.

The woman, who cannot be named, said she had been drinking all Christmas Eve in a pub in the town and by the time she left in the early hours of Christmas Day she was quite drunk. She had also taken a small line of cocaine.

As she walked along the side of the Co-op she saw two men. One grabbed her.

She said: “He was holding my arms and I hit him in the face. I was trying to push myself away. He would not let go so I kept hitting him.

"I knew I was in real trouble. I ended up on the floor and that’s when all the horrible stuff happened.”

The woman said she was being held face down on the ground by her neck.

Her jeans and pants were pulled down to her knees and the rape took place. Afterwards both men ran away and she rang the police.

She told the court that when she left the pub to walk home she was tired, drunk and not in control.

She did not remember leaving the pub and although CCTV footage showed her walking around Dover for two hours afterwards she had no recollection of that.

"I knew I was in real trouble. I ended up on the floor and that’s when all the horrible stuff happened" - alleged rape victim

Martin Lewis, defending Tofoi, said the CCTV also showed her engaging with Tofoi, holding hands with him and walking around the town with him for about an hour. The woman said she had no recollection of any conversation with Tofoi.

“All I remember is the attack,” she told the jury. “I have no recollection of anything else.”

Mr Lewis said: “Apart from walking and talking with Tofoi and holding hands about 15 minutes after meeting on the streets of Dover the two of you kissed intimately.”

The woman said she had no recollection of that and she denied taking down her own trousers while with Tufoi and having consensual sex with him and then being raped by the other man.

“You had consensual sex with Tufoi and when the second man tried to have sex you did not like that and came to your moral senses,” Mr Lewis said.

“In your tired and drunken state you cast yourself as the victim.”

The woman denied this and said that was not what had happened.

The trial continues.

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