Banker ‘assaulted woman in his flat’

A woman was raped by an investment banker in his £1m apartment after she told him: ‘I don’t have sex with people on a first date’, a court heard. Varun Venaik, 31, kissed and touched the woman intimately with her consent before forcing himself on her, it was said. Australian Venaik is accused of raping the woman at his basement flat in Upper Montagu Street, Marylebone, on 31 July last year after they met on the Bumble dating website. She…