He turned around to see where his parents were

When he went upstairs Rory Harrison said he met the complainant outside Jackson’s bedroom door and he noticed that the international rugby player was lying on his bed ‘half awake’ while Stuart Olding was asleep on a sofa in an adjoining room with a girl called Emily Docherty.

In those police interviews, Jackson also said that the alleged rape victim did not see Stuart Olding come into his bedroom. He claimed the door to his bedroom was half open while he and the complainant were having consensual oral sex and that when he saw Olding, he waved at him and smiled.

However, when a tape recording of an interview Stuart Olding gave to police was played in court just minutes after the reading of Jackson’s interviews had concluded, Stuart Olding was clearly heard saying that when he entered his teammate’s bedroom the complainant had ‘waved her hand’ and ‘hinted’ at him to join in.

As the recording was played in court in front of the jury, Olding, dressed in a smart navy suit, lightcoloured blue shirt and burgundy tie, sat red-faced. He sat, head bowed... and when he did lift his head, his eyes were downcast. All the time his face became redder and redder.