[J]URORS in the trial of four schoolboys accused of “gang-raping” a 15-year-old girl in a Workington field have heard the alleged victim asked the quartet: “Does anyone want sex?”
The four boys, all teenagers aged under 16, are on trial at Carlisle Crown Court. They each deny two rape allegations, and further deny a charge alleging an additional sexual assault on the female.
Evidence continued on day four of the trial today (THURS). Jurors heard extracts from the first of two interviews one of the boys gave to police.
The boy claimed the girl approached him and the three others in Workington on the evening of January 3. They did not know her.
She was said to a have told a friend: “Right, I am going with these.” The boy believed she was older than 15, and that she “was a bit tipsy but not, like drunk.” He said she then began mild sexual contact with him and then one of his friends.
As they walked towards the field, he said the girl then asked: “Does anyone want sex?” His reply, he told police, was “Aye, I will if you want.”
The pair then had sex, he said, before she began having sexual contact with one of the other boys.
Asked by the police officer whether he had raped the girl, or been involved with anyone else in raping her, the boy replied: “No.”
The trial continues.
