PhD student ‘raped woman after stopping her from leaving his flat’

A pistillate says a PhD pupil raped her portion she was unconscious aft having forcibly stopped her from leaving his flat.

The alleged unfortunate told Inner London Crown Court that Zhenhao Zou pulled her her backmost by her apparel erstwhile she tried to permission his location successful Elephant and Castle connected May 18, 2023.

She claimed the 27-year-old, from China, past pushed her to portion vodka and aboriginal dragged her into his bedroom, wherever she astatine immoderate constituent passed out.

The pistillate said helium past raped her.

Police aboriginal recovered video footage of the alleged rapeon a camera by Zou’s furniture and graphic photographs of the alleged unfortunate successful his possession, the tribunal heard.

The pistillate is 1 10 alleged victims Zou is accused of drugging and raping – 3 successful London and 7 successful China.

She and 1 different are, however, the lone 2 who person been identified by police.

Last week jurors were shown footage of a constabulary interrogation wherever she told a detective she and Zou had been drinking vino unneurotic astatine the flat, but she began to find him ‘odd’ and wanted to leave.

She said helium refused to fto her go, leaving her sobbing connected the level astatine 1 point.

The pistillate said she asked Zou for 100,000 successful Chinese currency (£11,000) successful speech for staying but told the detective that she did not expect the suspect to wage and that this did not let him to person enactment with her.

Giving grounds today, she told jurors that the wealth was ‘compensation’, which helium agreed to wage portion they were drinking together.

Asked what the wealth was for, she said: ‘He forced maine to enactment astatine his spot that nighttime aft a large magnitude of alcohol, my emotion was not stable.

‘So nether the utmost nonaccomplishment of my affectional control, an statement we had was either you fto maine spell oregon springiness maine wealth truthful that I tin stay.’

But, reiterating what she told the detective, she said this statement did not springiness him consent to immoderate intersexual activities with her.

The pursuing day, connected May 19, the pistillate sent Zou a connection saying her container was inactive astatine his flat.

He replied, ‘I had excessively overmuch to drink’ and either ‘I did thing wrong’ oregon ‘it was wrong’ (depending connected the translation) and ‘can we sermon this concern erstwhile we conscionable later’, authoritative Catherine Farrelly KC said.

The pistillate replied and said ‘think astir what you person done’, the prosecution added, earlier asking her what she was referring to.

The pistillate told jurors: ‘What I was referring is helium forced maine to enactment astatine his spot and aft a batch of intoxicant helium inactive wouldn’t let maine to spell and dragged maine into his country and raped me.’

The pistillate past sent messages to Zou connected May 20, saying ‘you are truthful disgusting’ and ‘you should consciousness blameworthy for what you did’.

Asked by Ms Farrelly what she meant by that, the pistillate said: ‘After I was drunk helium raped maine and not allowing maine to spell home’.

Also connected May 20 the pistillate sent Zou a connection saying ‘now I conscionable privation to exposure you’.

Asked successful tribunal what she was referring to, she said ‘what I meant was that I was going to exposure him but without mentioning his sanction nor his picture’.

She added that she aboriginal ‘exposed my experience’ by penning astir it connected online groups.

The pistillate said she was hoping to ‘receive immoderate enactment successful making maine consciousness better’.

On May 21 the pistillate sent Zou a connection saying she had called the police.

The woman’s telephone telephone to police, made astatine 4.21am connected May 21, was played retired large to the court.

She told the tribunal she decided to telephone the constabulary arsenic she ‘hadn’t been sleeping for 3 days’.

Prosecutors accidental Zou filmed 9 of the alleged victims, the footage of which was played successful tribunal past week.

The pupil moved to Belfast successful 2017 to survey astatine Queen’s University earlier heading to London successful 2019 to bash a master’s grade and past a PhD astatine UCL.

Zou denies 11 counts of rape arsenic good arsenic 3 counts of voyeurism, 12 of possession of an utmost pornographic image, 1 of mendacious imprisonment and 8 of possession of a controlled cause with intent to supply.

He volition reason that the intersexual interactions were consensual, that drugs and intoxicant were consumed by the women voluntarily, and that immoderate of the footage captured progressive relation playing, jurors were told.

The proceedings continues.

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