A WOMAN has told a jury at Winchester Crown Court why she did not stop psychiatrist Christopher Allison when he had sex with her on the floor of his consulting rooms.

The woman, now 50, was a 28-year-old student nurse when she started going to Allison - then a consultant psychiatrist in Kent - for help. She said: "I did not want to be there but I did not know how to say no. My brain was screaming: 'Say no! Get up and go away, this is not what therapists do!' but your body just stays there."

She said the sex was "without affection" and afterwards she felt totally humiliated and dirty. She said Allison had seemed reassuring and understanding of her problems in the months preceding the attack.

She also said she went back to him because she continued to be "addicted" to therapy for her problems and described the "unequal" relationship between client and therapist and how Allison had told her of the sex: "This will make you feel better."

Often in tears, she then described three occasions when she had sex with Allison - twice in his consulting rooms and once in a room at an Oxford college.

Allison's defence counsel, Miss Sonia Woodley QC, then questioned the woman about several relationships, saying she was not as sexually-inexperienced as she claimed.

Miss Woodley said Allison did not deny having sex with the woman.

Allison, 60, has pleaded not guilty to seven charges of rape, 14 charges of indecent assault and one charge of attempted rape.

The offences are alleged to have been against nine women, between 1982 to 1999. Two of the women were from the Basingstoke area, and were treated by Allison when he practised at the Fairfields Clinic, in Chequers Road and Skippetts Lane West, both in Basingstoke.

The case continues.