‘PREM STAR’S MATE FILMED SEX ATTACK’
Police probe rape claim at lockdown do
DAILY STAR SUNDAY, July 5, 2020
A PREMIER League footballer who has been accused of rape has admitted a pal filmed the sexual encounter on a phone.
The player told police investigating her claims that he had sex with the woman, but said it was consensual.
But he admitted that a friend who was also at the party filmed the alleged incident. The men have handed the footage to police.
The woman said she had no idea about the clips until detectives told her.
She has now started legal proceedings, claiming the filming was done without her consent.
A letter to the Attorney General says she has been further violated by their actions in a breach of privacy.
It claims she fears the content could have been widely circulated or put online.
It also suggests the woman believes she may have been assaulted by a number of the footballer’s friends and other videos made.
Breaching privacy and making videos of a sexual nature without consent can carry a sentence of two years in prison plus a fine.
The revelations come after she went to police in May following a lockdown-busting party in a rented flat.
The woman, who had known the footballer for more than a year, went to the apartment following a night out with a group of people.
Her pals told police that she was taken to lie down after she started “acting strangely”.
In the morning she woke up in bed with the star and was naked, with scratches on her legs. The footballer was also fully undressed.
The woman told police that when she asked him what had happened, he said they had sex.
She said she had no memory of the previous evening and believed her drinks, of which she said she had two, had been spiked.
The police investigation is continuing.
WAR veteran and double amputee Duncan Slater set off on a 72-mile walking challenge yesterday to raise money for cancer charities.
The 41-year-old feared he may never walk after being struck by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in 2009.
But he has since completed challenges including an ultramarathon in the Sahara. Duncan, of Norfolk, will walk from Diss to Norwich and has already raised more than £2,500.