A MAN has gone on trial accused of raping a young woman near the Crompton War Memorial in Oldham he had met earlier that day.

Ryan Horsfall is accused of carrying out the rape as well as two further sexual offences against a girl who was 15 years of age at the time of the allegation in April 2018.

He has gone on trial at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court where the 22-year-old has denied all three charges against him.

Opening the case, prosecutor Daniel Calder stated it was clear that the teenager did not give her consent to the sexual activity.

He said the pair, who had met earlier that day, were travelling home together through the Oldham war memorial area when Horsfall stood on her leg and swung her round.

He then began kissing her and throughout the incident carried out multiple sexual offences against her including raping her.

He said during the incident the teenager said repeatedly she “had to go.”

The rape is said to have taken place in an alleyway beyond the cemetery.

The prosecutor went on to explain before the court some principles of consent.

He said: “A person can consent if he or she agrees and has the freedom of capacity to make that choice.

“There is an important difference between agreeing to a sexual act and submitting to it.

“She was not consenting, she was not agreeing to these acts by choice.

“She is telling the defendant repeatedly I have got to go.

“She was frightened and felt intimidated.

“‘The defendant asked her ‘do you want to shag’ she told him ‘no’”

Following this he outlined a message sent by Horsfall later that night, which he said pointed out that he clearly knew what he had done.

The message said: “You are not going to say owt are you xx?”

Mr Calder described this a “clear admission from the defendant that he full well knew what he had done was wrong.

“He knew she had not consented to what had taken place on the journey home.

“He wanted to check up that she wasn’t going to report what had happened.

“She failed to reply and he followed up with ‘what’s the point in giving me your number if you aren’t going to text me.’”

He said the woman told a friend who told her mother who later urged the complainant to tell her family which she did.

At first she was transported to her grandparents’ home by the friend of her mother and they were the first relatives of hers who were told what had happened.

He added that when Horsfall, of Astley Close in Shaw, was spoken to by police he said there had been a sexual encounter but “as far as he was concerned it was consensual.”

The prosecutor also told the jury there was a text sent from Horsfall to a friend, where he had said he could not remember any sexual encounter.

He also said the defendant had been smoking cannabis beforehand.

Later the jury saw a video interview by the girl given the month of the incident.

She explained she had met Horsfall for the first time earlier that day, they had been at a flat together when her mother called and asked her to return home.

She said there was no flirtation and no sexual contact between the pair while they were on the tram to Shaw, and Horsfall did not seem interested in her at that time.

But she said he stood on her foot as they made their way through the Crompton War Memorial and swung her around and began kissing her.

She said there were multiple incidents and she repeatedly said she had to go, before he had sex with her in an alleyway.

She was asked by the officer conducting the interview what she thought was going to happen, and she said: “That he was going to force it.

“I don’t like the word rape.”

She was then asked: “What did you think was going to happen?”

The girl replied: “He wanted to have sex with me.”

Following this she was asked: “What did you want?”

“To go home, I was going to get in trouble.”

She said she replied: “No, I have got to go home.”

The woman also said at one point during the incident he had said “Come to mine tomorrow,” and she replied “I’ll think about it” and he said “you had better.”

She explained that he had followed her as they came out of the cemetery, but she was afraid of being alone at that time as well as of being with him.

The trial, before Judge Paul Lawton, continues.