A MAN accused of raping a teenager may have struck as she appeared young or inexperienced, jurors have been told.

Southampton Crown Court heard Ismail Mahmood left the 17-year-old in shock after the incident earlier this year.

Prosecutor Rose Burns said Mahmood had offered to drive the girl home after seeing her in Southampton.

She accepted the lift offer but he then stopped the car and raped her in the back of the vehicle, Ms Burns said.

She said that Mahmood “preyed on a young woman who was vulnerable by virtue of her drunkenness”.

She also said another possibility was that he did so because the girl “appeared young” and “inexperienced”, or both.

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Ms Burns told the jury that the victim didn’t remember much about the incident in which she “couldn’t move or talk or do anything”.

“When it was happening she just laid there like a doll”, she said, adding that she had “never been in that situation and was in shock”.

The court heard the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pushed Mahmood away and got out of the car.

She told police the next day and Mahmood of Bishopsfield Road, Fareham was arrested after his car was identified by number plate recognition cameras in Southampton, the court was told.

But when quizzed by police Mahmood said the complainant had asked for sex and asked for his phone number, asking him if he had a girlfriend, Ms Burns added.

Jurors were told that Mahmood told detectives the girl refused to leave his car even though he told her she could go.

Ms Burns said Mahmood told police how the defendant said “it was hard to control himself".

Mahmood also told police they hugged and agreed to meet again before the girl left, the court heard.

Mahmood denies rape and the trial continues.

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