A WOMAN who claimed she had been raped by the former captain of a Hampshire rugby team spoke of her ordeal as she spent a second day in the witness box.
She told jurors that David Ewen seemed to have not cared what he had done and didn’t say a word to her the following morning. “It was though we had had an argument.”
The woman told Southampton Crown Court how she met Ewen in a bar after he had played in a match for New Milton.
After an evening out, she drove him back to her home in the town where they went to bed. She said she had only a couple of drinks but he had been drinking since about 4pm.
She said there was passionate kissing, cuddling and foreplay, before Ewen suddenly “flipped” her over. He then pinned her down to the bed and raped her.
“I tried to wriggle away,” she said under cross-examination from defence barrister James Newton-Price. “I told him to stop.”
The following morning, she described as “unpleasant,” saying that he never spoke to her. “It was though we had had an argument. I don’t think he cared and don’t recall if he said anything to me.”
Jurors have been told that the woman felt in so much “agony” that morning she went to hospital where it was discovered she had broken a bone near her spine and was prescribed painkillers.
Ewen, 49, of Brownsea Close, New Milton, denies rape and indecent assault.
Proceeding
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