I was raped by swim star after sex with pal: woman
Accusation: Otto Putland A WOMAN allegedly raped by a Commonwealth Games swimmer has told a court he came into the room and started taking his clothes off moments after she had consensual sex with his friend.
Otto Putland (24) who represented Wales at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, is accused of raping the woman after a night out in Cardiff in July 2015.
The woman said the swimmer, who denies the offence, entered the bedroom after she had consensual sex with his friend, Olympic swimmer Ieuan Lloyd.
In a video played at Cardiff Crown Court yesterday, the woman said she met Lloyd in a club and they spent most of the evening together before going back to his home.
“We left his friend (Putland) in the club with another girl. Once we got back to Ieuan’s house we had sex.”
The woman said afterwards Lloyd got up and went out of the bedroom, leaving the door open and she could hear him talking to Putland.
Putland then came and sat on the bed and started taking off his shoes, the court heard.
“When he started taking off his clothes that’s when I text my friend saying ‘help something might happen’. “Ieuan closed the door and he left me and Otto.”
She alleged: “He lay on top of me and that’s when I was saying ‘you can’t pass me around’ and he said ‘we’re not passing you around’.
“I told him I didn’t want to have sex with him and he continued trying to kiss me. I used my arms to keep him at a distance and push him away.
“At that point Ieuan walked in to grab something off the side of the table and he just walked straight back out again.”
The woman said she told Putland she needed to go to the bathroom and he stopped. In the bathroom she rang her friends and the next thing she remembered was hearing her phone ring and being back in the bed with Putland on top of her again.
The court heard the woman’s friends, responding to her calls for help, arrived at the address and then left with her in a taxi.
Putland, of Dinedor, near Hereford, denies one count of rape.
The trial continues.