A bouncer at Heaven nightclub allegedly raped a teenager in his car after she was turned away from a Halloween night for being too drunk, a court has heard.
Morenikeji Adewole, 47, is accused of preying on the 19-year-old woman on the back seat of his car, after walking with her from the world-famous gay club in Charing Cross to a back street nearby.
The young woman says she went with the security guard after he suggested he could get her into the club, and she struggles to remember parts of the incident that followed as she was so drunk.
She also says she tried to report the rape that same night, but was told by Heaven security to come back the next day, Southwark crown court heard.
The teenager alleges she woke up to find Adewole having sex with her on the back seat of the car, and insists she did not consent as she is a Christian who does not believe in sex before marriage.
Adewole denies rape and is now on trial over the incident in the early hours of November 1 last year.
Jurors heard the teenager and her friends had been drinking vodka with coke and cranberry juice before they attended Heaven for a Halloween-themed club night.
Part of the group, including the alleged victim, were denied entry, and she told detectives that she was eight out of ten drunk, or “crunk” as she described it – meaning “away with the fairies”.
The court was shown CCTV of Adewole, in his hi-vis security uniform, walking with the woman away from the crowds outside Heaven, towards a quiet back street.
Prosecutor Marion Smullen said the young woman was “looking very drunk”, at one point fell over, and eventually Adewole went to get his Lexus.
“The allegation is he raped this young woman”, she said.
“She says she was very drunk and doesn’t remember parts of that particular night.”
Ms Smullen said the woman found her friends again after the alleged rape and “told them what had happened to her”.
“They tried to report it to the security staff at the gate at Heaven night club, but they were simply told to report it the next evening when the club had reopened.”
The teenager told police: “She was not taking us seriously at all - she told us we should file a complaint to the club the next day at 8pm.”
She went home and then reported the incident to police.
In her recorded interview with officers, the woman said she and her friends had been drinking and were “very drunk” when they were denied entry to the club.
“She described herself as being ‘crunk’ meaning that ‘The girlie was gone, nothing upstairs’”, said Ms Smullen. “She said the word ‘crunk’ meant ‘When the girlie is gone away with the fairies’.
“She remembers speaking to a security guard about getting into the club”, she told the court. “He said he would let her into the club – ‘just come this way’. She remembers going with him and then being in the car with him but not how she got into the car.
“She remembers waking up in the back seat with him raping her.
“She tried to push his penis away and she told the police she felt that he was wearing a condom. She was not successful in pushing his penis away and stopping him, because he carried on and penetrated her vagina.”
Ms Smullen added: “She told police that she was a Christian and that she had wanted to wait until marriage before having sex with anybody. In effect, she had been a virgin until this night.”
Adewole was arrested on November 11, the keys to his Lexus were seized, and he largely replied ‘no comment’ in interview.
The prosecutor said Adewole denies rape, he is expected to say they had consensual sexual contact, and he also denies they had full sex.
“A drunken consent can still be consent”, said Ms Smullen. “But if a complainant was so intoxicated that she was in no position to consent, that is not consent.”
The alleged victim in this case “did not have the capacity to consent because she was so intoxicated”, it is said.
Adewole, of Dunlop Close, Dartford, has pleaded not guilty to rape. The trial continues.
