AN ALLEGED rape victim has told a jury the man they are trying is a danger to women.

She claimed at York Crown Court that John Terence Ellison, 45, gripped her head so strongly he left four lines in her head, punched her repeatedly, twisted her arm back and kicked her legs apart as he forced her to have sex in a way she didn’t want.

“He has to go to prison,” she said.

“He has to go because he is not safe. He is not safe around any woman. He is not safe. I have to say it. He just cannot live normally.

He is an animal. He is brutal.”

Defence barrister Steven Crossley alleged a police surgeon did not find any injuries when he examined her some days after the alleged rape.

Ellison, of no fixed address, denies rape.

The woman agreed with Mr Crossley that she had said in the past she was raped by two other men, a man in his sixties who supplied her with heroin and her stepfather. She also agreed that she had said in the past that a fourth man had sexually assaulted her.

She told the jury all the alleged sex crimes had really happened.

“Every man I get involved with has done something wrong against me,” she alleged.

She denied that she made false rape allegations.

She alleged in the days after Ellison allegedly raped her on November 23, 2012, he had repeatedly contacted her mobile phone and got his friends to contact the number.

“He was just awful. They were not going to leave me alone. I had to tell the police (about the alleged rape) so he could not do it to anyone else,” she alleged.

She denied taking cannabis on the day Ellison allegedly raped her.

The trial continues.