A law student has told a court in London how she was raped by an Arsenal footballer after a night out at a West End club.
The woman (22) claimed yesterday she had "absolutely no energy to resist in any way" when goalkeeper Graham Stack, a Republic of Ireland under-21 international currently on loan to Reading, allegedly attacked her in his flat.
The woman said she was ill and trying to sleep when she was set upon by the player and sexually assaulted by his friend, Allan Smillie, in September last year, the jury heard.
From behind screens she told the packed courtroom: "It was really, really sudden. There was absolutely no warning whatsoever. It was completely out of the blue. I was aware of what was happening, I just felt completely unable to do anything.
"I was almost passed out but saying 'Get off me, get off' and 'I just want to sleep'. They just totally ignored me." She claimed Stack only stopped attacking her when her friend called out his name.
Stack, Ruislip, west London, denied one count of rape and one of sexual assault at an earlier hearing. Smillie, an operations manager from Feltham, west London, pleaded not guilty earlier to two counts of sexual assault.