The jury has gone out in the trial of a man accused of raping a woman in her bedsit in Falmouth.

Fahd Mohammed Alkhalidi, 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.

Alkhalidi admits having sex with the alleged victim but denies it was rape and said in court yesterday that she had invited him into her bedsit after she asked him to bring her cannabis.

He claimed that she had initiated the sex with him after they smoked a spliff together on the bed.

However the complainant says that he forced her to have sex with him against her will despite her constantly saying no.

In a text the day after the alleged rape the alleged victim said that Alkhalidi needed to “get a grip” and it was “nearly rape” and that she said “no, but you did it anyway”. He replied that he was sorry and it wouldn’t happen again.

Alkhalidi, who was born in Kuwait and only came to this country in 2007, claimed he didn’t know what the word rape meant and he had apologised because he thought she was referring to “rough sex”.

Prosecution barrister Daniel Pawson Pounds admitted that that the day after the alleged rape she had also contacted him as her dealer asking for more cannabis but said it was because she was addicted and found herself “stuck between a rock and a hard place”.

“She was so addicted, the very next day she was back contact with him asking him to come the front door to give her cannabis, she told you she couldn’t stop vomiting. She was stuck between a rock and a hard place.”

The prosecution barrister said she was reluctant to go the police at first because she didn’t want him to get into trouble. She was persuaded by friends and family to do so. He said she had been truthful and consistent on the stand.

He said she also didn’t go to the police initially because she didn’t want to admit to herself that’s what had happened - that she’d been raped in her own home.

“I strongly feel that you felt in your gut she was being consistent and truthful,” he told the jury.

Defence barrister Rupert Taylor said to the jury that the alleged victim had regretted having sex with Alkhalidi and had made the rape claim to friends and family which had then snowballed.

“Are you likely to say to the alleged rapist the day after they say they were attacked: ‘I miss you’, you miss their conversation, you miss their humour as the complainant had admitted under cross examination.”

The trial continues.