A STUDENT was raped as she slept in her room at a University of York hall of residence, a jury heard.

The 19-year-old woman alleged she was so traumatised by the incident last June that she abandoned her studies and returned home.

"I don't feel I can live so close to Clive Manyou," she told the jury at York Crown Court.

Manyou, 36, of Garrowby Way, Heslington, York, denies rape and two charges of sexual assault. The rape is an alternative charge to one of the others.

Opening the prosecution, Simon Hickey said the 19-year-old had been out in the city centre with friends on June 7.

In Ziggy's nightclub they encountered student Manyou, whom she knew through a university organisation, and they were both part of a group that went back to her hall of residence, arriving at about 3.30am.

The group stayed in a kitchen talking and listening to music for a time before members started to leave.

The woman student alleged that she was starting to sober up and the alcohol made Manyou "sleazy".

He talked about sex in a way that made her uncomfortable and asked him to leave so she could sleep, but he asked to stay in her room.

"He made it seem as if it was the strangest thing in the world for me to want to sleep alone," she alleged.

"I was very tired at that point. It really did upset me because it felt, I felt, like I was being manipulated."

Reluctantly, she allowed him to stay on her bedroom floor, changed into nightclothes out of his sight and went to sleep.

She awoke to find him touching her sexually and felt him kiss her thigh.

"I pushed him off me and fell asleep again, which was something I obviously later regretted," she alleged.

She awoke again to find his chest pressed up against her so she could not breathe and he was sexually assaulting her. It was very painful.

She alleged that she cried out: "What the f are you doing?" and he responded: "What do you mean? What do you mean? I was only hugging you."

He accused her of being "warped" and "crazy" and "imagining things". He left shortly afterwards and she tried to tell a friend in the next room what had happened.

"I was very distressed, more shock than anything, and I was crying," she claimed.

Mr Hickey alleged that a doctor later found medical symptoms that matched her story.

In interview, Manyou alleged that he awoke to find the student sexually assaulting him and denied raping or molesting her.

The trial continues.