A MAN has denied using force during sexual activity with a woman he met for the first time a few hours earlier.

Andrew Keith Bulmer, 35, alleged that the woman consented to everything that happened in his bed in the early hours of November 18, 2016.

He denied her allegations that he had pulled her onto his bed, bit her, choked her or slapped her. He also denied that she had scratched him.

In witness statements read to the jury at York Crown Court, friends of the woman said she had been crying so hard that they couldn’t understand her when she rang them after 7am the same morning.

One friend who went to her house told police the woman was pale and clammy with smeared make-up. She also smelt heavily of alcohol.

The jury also heard evidence police found no injuries on either the woman or Bulmer.

Bulmer, of Milan House, Eboracum Way, central York, denies sexual assault.

He claimed the woman came round to his flat some time after they had parted in the city centre and she had a bath while he dozed off in bed.

“The next thing I knew she was sitting on my bed,” he alleged. He claimed she had taken the towel which was all she was wearing off and got into his bed. She has claimed he took the towel off her.

“Obviously, I rolled over to see her lying next to me,” Bulmer alleged. “I saw her naked, so I went to kiss her and she kissed me back.”

Asked what he was thinking, he said: “She had got into the bed naked and maybe something would happen, I wasn’t sure what.”

He claimed she left happy the next morning, saying she had to be at work at 8.30am.

She has denied saying this, claiming she left because she feared his behaviour would worsen.

The jury has seen social media messages Bulmer sent to two other women after leaving the woman outside Vudu at 3am. The prosecution claim the messages were sexual.

Bulmer denied prosecution suggestions that his libido was rising at the time. He said the alleged victim’s state later that morning was nothing to do with him.

Each had gone into the city centre separately with a friend on November 17 and had encountered each other in Bora Bora where they spent some time together, the jury has heard.

The woman and her friend later went onto Vudu.

Bulmer alleged that he and she made a vague arrangement to meet up later.

He went to The Drawing Board and then home via a McDonald's branch.

The trial continues.