1 hour ago A tribunal has heard however award-winning histrion Micheal Ward allegedly raped and sexually assaulted a pistillate soon aft gathering her successful a barroom successful London successful 2023.
The 28-year-old histrion - known for his starring roles successful the movie Blue Story and Netflix bid Top Boy - is accused of carrying retired the alleged onslaught successful a car.
In a constabulary interrogation played to jurors connected the archetypal time of his proceedings astatine Snaresbrook Crown Court connected Monday, the pistillate said she felt "numb" and "scared" during the alleged assaults, adding that she remembered "wanting it each to beryllium over".
He denies 2 charges of rape and 3 counts of intersexual assault, and has said each intersexual enactment betwixt the brace was consensual.
The alleged unfortunate said she met the histrion for the archetypal clip astatine a enactment astatine a nightclub successful north-east London. Jurors were told she knew Ward had been successful films and connected TV and felt flattered erstwhile helium asked for her Snapchat handle.
She was asked to travel him to the backmost of his friend's Mercedes, and they kissed and the pistillate consented to him touching her intimately, the proceedings heard.
The tribunal heard the histrion past invited the unfortunate and her friends to an afterparty astatine a antithetic location. It was successful a car adjacent that 2nd enactment wherever it's claimed the histrion raped and sexually assaulted the woman.
In her constabulary interview, the alleged unfortunate said: "I tried to permission the conveyance and helium told maine to adjacent the door."
After being arrested, Ward - who appeared successful tribunal connected Monday successful a bluish garment and burgundy necktie - told constabulary successful a statement: "I contradict the allegation of rape. I privation to enactment connected grounds that we had consensual foreplay and consensual sex."
The Jamaican-born and London-raised histrion won Bafta's Rising Star grant successful 2020 aft making his sanction by playing pack person and cause trader Jamie successful transgression bid Top Boy and Marco successful Blue Story, a communicative of rivalry connected southbound London's streets.
The proceedings continues.
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