A MAN has denied raping a woman three times in a Plymouth hotel room.
Brett Bullock, 29, told a jury that they had consensual sex and fell asleep in each other's arms.
He added that he was woken up by the police, arrested and interviewed - which he described as a "horrible experience".
The woman, then aged 18, told officers that Bullock had forced himself on her and then had sex with her as she slept in his room at the Copthorne Hotel.
She told his trial at Plymouth Crown Court that she was too scared to leave the room and only escaped when he fell asleep.
The woman said she made it clear that she did not want sex after spending hours partying with the defendant.
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