Mum thanked Brian Nutt for helping find her daughter at Barton beach – before teen told her he had just raped her, court hears
A mum told a jury how she thanked a youth for helping find her 16-year-old daughter on Barton beach before learning that he had just allegedly raped the teenager.
The woman said she had become concerned because her daughter usually kept in regular touch if she was out.
But at 9.50pm on 10th August 2021, she sent her a message saying “Where are you? It’s late” and received no response.
Her daughter had left home at 3pm to go to the beach to meet two friends.
When she was still out at nearly 11pm she rang her friends and learned they had left her hours earlier.
Giving evidence, she said she then went to Barton clifftop to search for her daughter where she encountered Brian Nutt, then 18, and another male.
She said she told him she was looking for her daughter and he offered to help.
The mum said Nutt told her that her daughter had “slid down the cliff” and that they had told her to walk along the beach to a path near the Beachcomber café.
She said: “I asked them to walk with me. I couldn’t see where she was, it was pitch black.”
The mum said Nutt went down to talk to her daughter on the path and was making his way back up by the time she got to her.
She said she had thanked him and his friend for helping her.
Her daughter, she said, was “very drunk”, missing a shoe and was limping.
She said: “She went very quiet on me. I asked if she was okay and she got very upset and just burst into tears.”
The woman said the teen then told her Nutt had raped her, and she called the police to report it.
Bournemouth Crown Court has heard Nutt was arrested at a New Milton address in the early hours of 11th August.
Ten months later on 5th June 2022 another 16-year girl claimed Nutt raped her in Bournemouth.
In a police video interview shown to the jury, she said she got talking to Nutt after he asked her for a cigarette filter.
As they were chatting, she said a woman approached and started shouting at Nutt: “You are a rapist!”
She said she asked the woman what had happened and she had told her: “He’s a rapist, he raped a girl.”
The girl said the woman had indicated to a girl sitting at a bus stop.
She said she went over to the girl and asked if she was okay. She said the girl had described someone who did not resemble Nutt but another youth she knew.
The girl said police officers then arrived to speak to the girl and she went back to Nutt who was talking to a policemen.
The jury has heard that Nutt is alleged to have told the officer he was out “trying to get a bit of p***y” and when asked if he was known to police said “yes due to an outstanding allegation of rape”.
The girl said the police left and she and Nutt started kissing. He then put his hand down her trousers and she told him “no” but he got “really aggressive”.
She said he “started pulling my hair” and had then pulled her into a bush.
The teen, who said she was drunk but “remembered everything” said Nutt then tried to rape her.
She said: “I told him to stop and he said ‘Are you sure?’.” She said he carried on, adding: “He wasn’t listening to me.”
Nutt then pushed her “really hard” into a wall, injuring her face. He then put her into a headlock before raping her, she told the jury.
She said: “I literally could not breathe. I was like a doll, I couldn’t move. He was really aggressive, I felt scared.”
Afterwards the girl said Nutt told her that he had “been accused of rape before” adding: “Don’t go round telling people that I raped you.”
The girl said that at first she hadn’t thought “anything had happened” but “when I was alone I was like, the whole thing was not okay.”
In a statement read to the court, Constable Thomas Kelly said he was in a van which was flagged down by a man in the town centre who told police that he wanted to report a rape.
The man pointed out two suspects to officers. PC Kelly said he went to speak to one of them whom he said “was drunk”.
He said: “He was swaying on his feet, his speech was slurred and his eyes were glazed over.”
The officer said the man gave his name as ‘Ryan Nutt’ and his date of birth which he then checked with the police national computer, and there was no record of him.
He said that Nutt then told him his first name was Brian and that he was “known in Hampshire for a rape allegation”.
The officer said he checked the computer again and a record of Nutt’s arrest came up.
He added: “I wanted to find out what his involvement was around the potential rape and asked him what he was doing in town.”
The officer said that Nutt replied with the remark about “trying to get myself some p***y”.
He said a young girl then came up and started to speak to Nutt. He said that he asked her for her details but she refused to give them.
The officer said: “I didn’t believe she was involved in the incident. She appeared to know him, from the way they were talking.
“I spoke to my sergeant about if there were any offences.”
He said that having been told there were not “I left Brian to get on his way”.
Nutt, of no fixed abode, denies two charges of rape on 10th of August 2021 and one charge of rape on 6th of June 2022 and one charge of ABH.
The trial continues
