Woman ‘raped by online date’

An accused sex attacker raped a woman twice after meeting her online, a court heard.

Chinmay Patel, 34, is said to have abused his date after meeting her on south Asian matchmaking website Shaadi.com in February 2017.

During the date Patel allegedly joked ‘It’s not like I’m raping you’ when she refused to kiss him on their first date, jurors heard.

She said he ignored her request for water after one glass of wine and brought her a shot of Sambuca with more wine.

‘I felt annoyed and like he was trying to get me drunk,’ she told jurors at Southwark Crown Court from behind a screen.

‘He tried to kiss me, I said “I don’t’ want to kiss”.

‘We started dancing, he put his hand up my top, I said no, he took it out.

‘We kissed and he came to kiss my neck and he bit it.

‘And I said “ow, that hurt! Is it bleeding?’

She said they left in the early hours of the morning and he became ‘grumpy’ when she refused to let him come to her home.

‘He started saying that we’ve been arguing for an hour on the road, it’s cold, his sinus is hurting.’

She eventually agreed he could stay on her sofa when he claimed he needed to pick up a friend from Stansted Airport in two hours.

Once in her flat he looked into every room before ‘rushing’ to her room and pushing clothes off the bed with a big smile.

‘He tried to take my top off and my hair was getting tangled up,’ the woman said.

‘He was kissing me, pushing me down, he kept kissing me to stop me from talking.

‘I was saying: “I have to get out of here, stop, no.”

‘He undid my bra took my top off, unzipped my skirt, pulled my skirt down.

‘I would not lie down, I kept trying to get back up but he kept kissing me and pushing me down.

‘He managed to take my skirt off.

‘He went for my tights and pulled them down, I said “No, no, no, I don’t want to take them off I don’t want to do this.”

‘He kept pulling at my tights, I said “Stop, I don’t want to this”

After the rape she said: ‘I was in shock and in panic, no, exhausted. I fell asleep and I think I had heart palpitations.

‘It must have been 4am, his alarm started ringing so I must have woken up around 5:30am, 6am, maybe 6:30am. I was very awake and in shock.

‘I felt dirty, didn’t know what to do, got up and washed myself.

‘I was thinking, I was confused about how it all happened, I thought, “Should I call the police?”

‘I was getting panic attacks and trying to normalise myself. I was waking up because he had to go to his friend in Stanstead, I had my pyjamas and a top on.

‘He was looking at his phone and said he had missed his friend at the airport.

‘I didn’t know what to do, I was in shock, I just wanted him to leave.

‘I said I was in shock, and this has never happened in my house. He said “We were just tipsy”, I said “Well I wasn’t.”

‘He started to kiss me, I said “No, I don’t want to do this.”

‘He started to feel my legs up, trying to take my pyjamas off.

‘I said: “You don’t take no for an answer, no, no means no.” He said: “No, I don’t.”

‘Then I was fighting, he started showing aggression, a growl, I started feeling scared pyjama bottoms were ripped.’

Then he attacked her a second time, jurors heard.

‘I wanted him to leave, he was saying that he was trying to see his friend who will come and pick him up.

‘I was trying to normalise the situation so I could heal my nerves, I was waiting for him to leave.

‘I didn’t know what to do and I didn’t want to leave my pets alone with him.

‘I messaged my friend, I went into the kitchen, he was in the living room, I said that I was in trouble and called her.

‘I was whispering, I said I had went on a date with this guy, I said he is in the living room, I’m in the kitchen, things have happened.

‘She didn’t know what I was trying to say.

Under cross-examination the woman denied accusing Patel because she felt used after he blocked her on Facebook.

‘I remember to myself feeling raped, forced, I was forced, I kept saying no,’ she said.

‘It’s an attack, I’m saying no, and he’s still stripping me naked.

‘I’ve allowed him in my home.’

Text messages to her friend referred to the incident as ‘unexpected’ and ‘unplanned,’ jurors heard.

The woman added: ‘I wouldn’t plan to have sex with anyone, it would have to be a relationship with someone I know, someone I have feelings for.’

‘I remember when he kept trying, kept insisting to kiss me, I remember just giving up because I felt tired and tipsy,’ she wrote.

‘That’s how things began,’ she told jurors.

He is also accused of sexually assaulting another woman by biting her and trying to force her legs apart last July.

Patel, of Cardigan Road, Leeds, denies two counts of rape and two of sexual assault.

The trial continues.
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