A WOMAN who claimed she was raped by consultant psychiatrist Christopher Allison told Winchester Crown Court how her abuse as a child had initially led her to "keep quiet".

In the witness box was the fourth of nine women who claim the psychiatrist raped or indecently assaulted them during the 1980s and 1990s when they went to him for psychotherapy.

Allison, now 60, worked in Basingstoke during the 1990s when his Fairfields Clinic was first at Chequers Road and then in Skippetts Lane West. Until 1988, he worked for the NHS in Kent.

At the end of her evidence, Judge Patrick Hooton asked the 53-year-old woman: "Did you let him have sex with you on the basis that you needed reassurance and warmth? Why not say no?"

The woman - Miss D - said: "I don't believe I said no. I was just passive." She said Allison was physically "revolting" and she had not wanted sex with him, just for him to be "warmer" towards her in therapy.

Miss D told the jury of seven men and five women how she had been abused by her father and said her approach was: "Just keep quiet and your mouth shut and it's over with."

She said the first time she and Allison had sex was on cushions in his Canterbury consulting rooms after she had been upset.

She said before the end of her therapy with him in 1988, there may have been between four and six "sex acts" with Allison, including intercourse.

Miss Sonia Woodley QC, defending, questioned Miss D about her admitted drug use, her several affairs with men and her unhappiness with Allison.

Miss Woodley said: "I'm suggesting you used sexual allegations in order to raise interest so you could get another therapist because you felt he had not been any good in therapy."

Miss Woodley claimed Miss D had also transferred some of her feelings against her father on to Allison.

Allison, who now lives in Suffolk, denies seven charges of rape, one of attempted rape and 14 charges of indecent assault.

The case continues.