AN 18-YEAR-old student has told a court she was raped three times in a city centre alleyway after a night out drinking in York with friends.

Barman Simon Christopher Nunns allegedly raped the woman when she was too drunk to stop him.

Nunns, 29, took the woman to the secluded Judges Court, behind the former Ha! Ha! Bar in New Street where he worked, York Crown Court heard. She had spent the evening drinking at a friend’s flat and in city bars, but was separated from the group at the time. Matthew Bean, prosecuting, said: “The defendant would have known her condition at this time would have affected her ability to prevent him from having sexual intercourse with her.”

The woman, a student at York St John University, wept in court during her evidence, in which she alleged Nunns pinned her against a wall in the early hours of November 10 and sexually assaulted her and hurt her.

Nunns, of Hampden Street, Bishophill, denies three charges of rape.

The undergraduate told the court: “He sat me on a wall somewhere, then we walked somewhere else. I cannot remember how it happened or where it happened. I said he was hurting me and that I was going to call the police and he said he had done nothing wrong and that he had been helping me.

“We started walking into a courtyard. I think I might have been standing against the wall, then I just remember saying he was hurting and to get off. I remember pulling away as he was trying to carry on. I was saying that I didn’t want to. He was grabbing hold of me and trying to keep me there. He said ‘it’s all right, we’ll do it a different way’.”

She claimed after she managed to get away from him she remembered a girl helping her to straighten her dishevelled clothes.

The jury was shown the black dress she said she was wearing and that the prosecution said was ripped by Nunns.

She said: “I don’t know how the police got there. I just remember getting into a police van.”

Mr Bean claimed CCTV evidence showed Nunns walking on to Coney Street and past the police van where the undergraduate was sitting. A second student, who claimed she was an “acquaintance” rather than a friend, said the woman was drinking vodka and an energy drink before they left together, heading for the city centre sometime before 11pm, and that she drank vodka mixtures at Revolution bar.

She described her as happy at times, while crying on occasion and complaining that boys were looking at other women more than her. The court heard on one occasion she was dancing provocatively with another student. She appeared to be affected by alcohol and the student described her as “giddy” and “a bit wobbly”, adding that she declined to leave with her, saying she was with her flatmates and was “fine”.

Nunns was arrested at his home on November 11.

• The trial continues.