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Police quickly arrived and arrested Gibbons who was interviewed. Mr Gerasimidis said she called the police immediately after the rape attack and her tearful 999 call alleging the rape was played to the jury. The woman said she was besotted with her boyfriend and their on-off relationship was volatile but she had gone to his home after he kept calling her to come over. He said the victim and her boyfriend, Gibbons and another man had spent the evening in October 2008 drinking wine, cider and beer and snorting cocaine. Prosecutor Nicholas Gerasimidis told the jury: 'This defendant effectively impersonated his very good friend.' Gibbons, from Pinhoe, near Exeter, denies rape.
She described the rape attack as 'horrible' and admitted it was hard for her boyfriend to believe what had happened as he tried to piece the chain of events together. I had done nothing prior to the act of sex to give him that impression. The victim told the jury: 'I absolutely did not want sex with Darryl. However, Gibbons later admitted to police that he had sex with her but it was consensual. The victim screamed and pushed him off and Gibbons ran into another room - as his friend woke to the noise.Įxeter Crown Court heard that when she confronted Gibbons in the house in Exeter, Devon, he denied even being in the bedroom or having sex with her. The court heard that Gibbons told her that it was her boyfriend lying next to her as he raped her. But when she reached out across the bed with her arm, she felt him sleeping beside her. It was dark in the bedroom and she assumed it was her boyfriend.
The victim told the jury: 'I was stirring and felt somebody on top of me having sex with me.' Darryl Gibbons is alleged to have raped a woman while her boyfriend slept next to herĪ sleeping woman was raped by a man pretending to be her boyfriend, a court heard yesterday.ĭarryl Gibbons, 26, who told police he was sexually aroused, had been at a drink and drug-fuelled party at his friend's home which went on until 4am.Ī jury heard that the 24-year-old rape victim went to bed with her boyfriend and they made love for 30 minutes.īut Exeter Crown Court heard later the same morning she stirred to find someone having sex with her again.