A MAN charged with rape continually pressurised his alleged victim to have sex with him – despite him being married, a court has heard.

Fahd Mohammed Alkhalidi, aged 42, formerly of Marlborough Road, Falmouth, is on trial at Truro Crown Court following the alleged rape in Falmouth on September 25, 2020 which he denies.

The court was told that Alkhalidi was a 'drug dealer' who supplied the woman with cannabis and ended up pressuring her for sex.

In a video of a police interview played in court the woman said she was vulnerable at the time, having come out of an eight-year relationship during which her partner cheated on her.

She said because she was vulnerable she was susceptible to someone saying she was beautiful and that they loved her, and she agreed to have a sexual relationship with him, before finding out he was married so she stopped "seeing him". 

However she continued to be in contact with him to get cannabis, as she said at the time she was addicted to the drug.

She said he continued to pressurise her for sex and on occasion she agreed, but eventually told him this wasn’t going to happen anymore as she now had a new boyfriend. She said she last had sex with Alkhalidi a month before the rape.

On the day of the alleged rape she contacted Alkhalidi at around 5pm to get some cannabis, which he agreed to, and he was round in ten minutes. She said she would normally meet him outside to stop him from asking her for sex, but on this occasion she had just had a shower and had wet hair so she let him in.

She said he came into her bedsit and asked her for sex. “I was saying to him no I don’t want to be with you. I kept saying no I don’t want to have sex with you. I’ve had enough of all this and you’ve got to stop. I said to him several times I wasn’t going to have sex with him,” she said in the recorded interview. 

But she claimed he then raped her. Afterwards he told her that he missed her, he loved her and they should still be together and then he left.

The prosecution told the court that the next day he messaged her saying how good the sex had been. She was said to have replied saying: “You need to get a grip, that was nearly rape” to which he responded, “I’m sorry, it won’t happen again”.

It wasn’t until she told a friend what had happened that she realised it definitely was rape and reported it to the police, showing them screenshots of the messages.

Asked in the videoed police interview why she said to him it was “nearly rape” she said: “I was in shock he had done it when I repeatedly said no to him.

“Because it wasn’t really violent or hurt me I wasn’t thinking straight. I was just in shock. I didn’t want to think of it as rape. I didn’t want to use those words at all.”

She said when she told Alkhalidi she had told her friend, who said she should go to the police, he pleaded with her not to tell anyone else and then stopped contact with her when she told him to.

He was later arrested and charged with rape.

The trial continues.