Unwanted sexual contact from Clarke on set, actor tells court

An actor carried a "deep sense of shame" for years after Noel Clarke made unwanted sexual contact with her while filming an intimate scene, the high court has heard.

- Haroon Siddique

Penelope*, a witness in Guardian News and Media's (GNM's) defence to Clarke's libel claim against the publisher, said in her witness statement that the former Doctor Who star got an erection when they were filming a sex scene.

"He was on top of me in the bed," she said. "When he first took down his trousers and pants, I felt his penis land on my pubic area. I tried to move myself up in the bed slightly so there would be distance between our genitals, but then his penis was touching me in between my legs right at the entry of my vagina.

"He was so close that I recall being worried in case he moved in further or ejaculated. I don't remember how many takes we did of this scene, in the various camera angles. There may have been four or five takes in each angle. His erect penis remained touching me in the same place throughout all of these takes."