A 50-year-old man has gone on trial in the Royal Court accused of raping and sexually assaulting a woman multiple times.
Miguel Adelino Dos Ramos Pombo denies five counts of rape, and five of sexual penetration without consent.
But Crown Advocate Emma Hollywood, prosecuting, said the woman “clearly said no and she was ignored”.
The alleged victim wept as she told a jury that, even when she made it clear she did not want sex, Mr Pombo would pull her legs apart and force himself on her.
She said: “When I didn’t want it he would still do it.
“I would say: ‘Leave me alone’ or: ‘Let me go.’ He wouldn’t say anything.”
The woman said that she had also had consensual sex with Mr Pombo, describing it as “normal sex” – but added that the non-consensual activity soon followed.
Asked by Advocate Hollywood whether it was clear to Mr Pombo when she was not consenting, she said: “Yes, of course he would know.”
Earlier in the day, the jury watched a video recording of an interview the woman had given the police. She spoke in Portuguese, with English subtitles translating.
She said that Mr Pombo had raped her when she had either said no to sex or had clearly signalled through her body language that she was not consenting, by turning away from him and keeping her legs together.
The woman also alleged that he had sexually penetrated her in different ways, despite her refusal and complaints that it was painful.
“I was feeling fear,” she said. “In my heart I thought it was abuse.”
Questioning her about her previous consensual relations with Mr Pombo, Advocate Greg Herold-Howes, defending, asked her: “Was there a formal conversation before every act of intimacy?”
She said: “No, there was no conversation.”
He asked: “How did Mr Pombo know you did not consent if you didn’t verbally say so?”
She replied: “If I was keeping my legs closed and turning my back to him that meant I didn’t want it.”
The trial is expected to run until Friday.
Commissioner Patricia Lees is presiding.
