Court trial: Brian Nutt, accused of raping girls on Barton clifftop and in Bournemouth, tell jury both agreed to have sex

A man accused of raping a teenager at Barton clifftop and another girl 10 months later claimed both consented to sex.

Giving evidence at Bournemouth Crown Court, Brian Nutt (21) said neither of the girls had told him to stop.

Asked by prosecutor Richard Tutt if he had any explanation why two 16-year-old young women who don’t know each other had both accused him of rape, Nutt replied “no”.

The court has heard that a medical examination of the first girl after she reported she had been raped revealed bruises all over her body including her neck.

Nutt denied causing them and said he “did not remember” the details of the sex they had because he was drunk.

The defendant, who was living in New Milton at the time of the alleged attack on the first girl, had earlier told the jury she had not told him to stop while they were having sex.

He also said that she was not crying as she had told police she had been during the alleged attack on 10th August 2021.

Nutt said he had watched pornography online but was “inexperienced” when it came to sex and had slept with only one girl prior to meeting the teenager.

The defendant said he had first met her in New Milton skate park. He had been smoking cannabis and had drunk two to three cans of beer on the clifftop.

He said he “felt good” after the girl told him she fancied him and they started kissing.

He said she then got on top of him and was “telling things, I can’t remember what she said, but she was telling things romantically.”

He said the girl had then touched him around his genital area, before asking him to tell a friend of his who was sitting around 10-20 feet away to leave.

Nutt said the pair then had consensual sex.

Ten months later on 5th June 2022, Nutt was accused of raping another 16-year-old girl in Bournemouth town centre.

She said she had started chatting to him and they had kissed.

He had then got “really aggressive” before pulling her into bushes where he attacked her, the jury heard.

Prior to that, the girl said, a woman had approached Nutt and accused him of raping another girl

In the witness box Nutt said the woman had also punched him. He said: “I was confused, shocked.”

He said he had not raped anyone before meeting the girl. The jury has heard that another teenager at a bus stop claimed she had been sexually assaulted but the description of her attacker did not match Nutt.

Police were called to the scene and an officer spoke to Nutt asking him what he was doing. He told him he was out “trying to get a bit of p***y.”

Nutt said he did not remember saying that as he was “very drunk” and was “embarrassed” that he had.

Asked if the girl had given “any indication that she didn’t want to have sex” Nutt said: “No.”

Giving evidence earlier in the week the girl said that the defendant had told her that someone had accused him of rape adding: “Don’t go round telling people I have raped you.”

Asked by Mr Evans why he had told the girl he had been accused, Nutt said he had done so because “I was intoxicated and started opening up to her. I told her a lot of things”.

Nutt, from Sandbanks, denies two charges of rape on 10th August 2021, one of rape on 5th of June 2022 and causing actual bodily harm on the same date.

The trial continues.