A FORMER student allegedly twice raped a first-year undergraduate before locking himself alone in her room and falling asleep, a jury has heard.

Opening the prosecution, Tom Storey claimed Lewis Tappenden gave the woman a false name when they went back to her student accommodation after they met for the first time during separate nights out in York city centre.

The barrister alleged after the alleged rape, the woman and other students had to get security at the student accommodation to unlock the door and eject him from the building.

Tappenden was later traced when his girlfriend responded to a police public appeal.

Tappenden, 24, formerly of York and now of High Street, Huntington, Cambridgeshire, denies two charges of rape.

He claimed to police both sex acts were consensual and that he could not remember being ejected from the student accommodation.

Mr Storey told the jury at York Crown Court: “This case, the prosecution says, is a case of a woman’s right to change her mind and decide whilst she may initially have wanted something to happen, when it came to the crunch, she no longer wanted it to take place.”

He alleged that after the woman told Tappenden no, he held her down so forcefully he bruised her and that shortly after sex, other students saw a bite mark on her cheek that hadn’t been there beforehand.

The woman, a York St John University student, had gone out with friends in October 2015 and had had more to drink than she normally did, the barrister said.

In the early hours, she got talking to Tappenden, who was a former student of York St John University, in The Drawing Board bar, New Street.

“Her initial recollection was that at the end of the night he dragged her out of the bar. It may be she was pretty happy to leave with him,” Mr Storey claimed.

Tappenden and the woman went back to her room where they got undressed and into bed.

“She began to sober up and realised what was happening and what was likely to happen and decided she didn’t want the thing to go further,” alleged Mr Storey.

He claimed the woman told Tappenden she didn’t want sex, but he persisted and held her down.

After he had finished, he went into a bathroom where he was sick and she ran out and roused other students in the same accommodation. Tappenden told them he would leave, but then locked himself into her room.

The trial continues.