A MAN forced a teenager on to his bed before raping her after a row with his wife, a court heard.

UPDATE - Tuesday's evidence as trial continues

Tom Clipsham, of Vale Avenue, Grove, denies one count of rape alleged to have taken place at his then-home in Barwell, Wantage, in the early hours of March 5 last year.

As his trial at Oxford Crown Court started yesterday, prosecutor Charles Ward-Jackson told jurors how the 30-year old had been out in Wantage in the hours before the alleged rape.

After he returned home, jurors were told, the alleged victim who cannot be named for legal reasons, arrived at Clipsham’s home along with two other friends.

It was there, while the woman was preparing to go to bed, jurors were told, that Clipsham ushered her into his room before closing the door and pinning her on to the bed.

In a recorded police interview played to the court the woman - who was 18 at the time - detailed the alleged rape which followed.

Speaking of what she claimed took place she said: “I just lied there and I didn’t move. Once he had finished I ran into the room next door.

“I didn’t know what to do, I felt so disgusting, I felt horrible, I felt dirty.”

She told police that she ‘froze’ when Clipsham pinned her to the bed and said he was too strong to fight off.

She added: “I thought he was just a genuinely nice guy, he didn’t seem horrible, like he would do anything like he did to me.”

Once she got home, she said she immediately washed her clothes and had a shower in an attempt to ‘scrub away the smell’.

When the woman was examined by a specialist in the days following the incident, the court heard, she was found to have suffered bruising to her arms and vaginal area.

Charles Ward-Jackson, prosecuting, also said that in the minutes before the alleged rape Clipsham had been engaged in a row with his wife who was in the USA at the time.

He said Clipsham had been determined to ‘get back at her’ and the court heard he had been ‘angry’ at the time.

A series of text message exchanges between the alleged victim and a friend who was not present at the Barwell address on the night in question were also detailed to the court.

One such Facebook message sent from the woman after the alleged rape, at 4.24am, read: “I can’t even talk, I just need to go home.”

The court also heard how when police learned of the allegations and arrested Clipsham he accepted that he had had sex with the teenager but claimed it was ‘consensual’.

Mr Ward-Jackson told the court: “It may well be that it will be suggested that the reason [the alleged victim] is so distressed about this was because she felt badly used by the defendant because having had sex with him he was more interested in his wife.”

Clipsham denies the charge and the trial - expected to last more than a week, continues.