A JURY was today deciding its verdicts in a student rape trial at York Crown Court.

The 12 jurors have to decide if Clive Richard Manyou raped a 19-year-old undergraduate as she slept in her room in a University of York hall of residence.

She also alleges that he sexually touched her in a separate incident in the early hours of June 8.

Manyou, 36, of Garrowby Way, Heslington, York, denies both charges and an alternative charge to the rape charge of sexual assault.

During the trial, the woman claimed that Manyou pressurized her into letting him sleep on her floor after they had been out with others in the city centre and met up again with friends in her hall of residence.

He claims he went to her hall reluctantly to oblige a friend, passed out on the woman's bed after being sick in her toilet and woke to find her on top of him molesting him.

The jury retired just before 3pm yesterday on the fourth day of the trial. At 4.15pm they asked to hear the medical evidence in the case again.

Recorder Gary Burrell QC read it out to them and then sent them home for the day.