Man Denies Rape Charge, Claims Consentual Sex

0:00On March 5, a 24-year-old former University of Manchester student is on trial for rape after meeting a fellow student at a party. Max Elliott from Surrey denies the charge, telling jurors the encounter was fully consensual. Prosecutors claim he stealthed the woman by skipping the condom she required for consent, turning what might have been agreement into rape under the law. Elliott testified they both had been drinking and felt tipsy before heading to his room, where things heated up mutually through kissing and foreplay. He said she knew he wasn't using protection because of earlier intimate acts with no pause to put one on, and the mood stayed enthusiastic without any. Force. The case now rests with the jury at Mincel Street Crown Court as they sort through these conflicting accounts.