The boyfriend of the late singer Amy Winehouse allegedly raped a woman while she was asleep, a court has heard. Reg Traviss, 35, attacked the woman after she was so drunk she could not stand, it was claimed.
The film director, who was Amy's boyfriend when she died at her home in Camden, north London, in July last year, faces two counts of rape at Southwark Crown Court. He denies the charges. Traviss and the woman, a friend, had been drinking at three bars in the capital on December 30 last year before going to his home on Marylebone High Street. There she alleges she twice fell asleep to wake up with him raping her.
The next day Traviss repaid the woman for some drinks she had bought the night before and showed her to the Tube so she could go home.The jury of six men and six women heard that the complainant went out with friends the following night, New Year's Eve, went away to New York in the new year and waited almost three weeks before reporting Traviss to police.
"She didn't want to let their friends down and decided to try to put it out of her mind that evening," said Miss Lumsdon. "She says that she didn't think at the time she understood the 'full scale of what had happened to her'. "On January 18 the woman visited the Haven in Paddington, west London, where she told staff about the alleged rape. Traviss was arrested on April 5.
The court was told their versions of the night were the same up until the final bar they visited. Traviss, appearing in court in a jacket and tie and with his trademark Brylcreemed hair swept to the side, said they were both equally drunk - about seven out of 10.
He said that, when they got back to his property, she lit some candles and declined the suggestion that he should sleep on the sofa, before they had consensual sex.
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