William Paton (pictured) has denied raping a City worker he met on a night out
A man has been accused of raping a young City worker in his hotel room after meeting her on an all-day drinking binge.
The 26-year-old City worker told Blackfriars Crown Court she woke up to find William Paton, 30, having sex with her in his Holiday Inn room.
The court heard Glasgow graduate Glasgow University graduate Paton, 30, allegedly picked her up as she enjoyed an all-day brandy and wine celebration with office colleagues.
Privately-educated Paton, who attended £12,000 a-year Hutcheson’s Grammar School and the University of Strathclyde, claims the woman consented.
He had travelled down from his home in Newton Mearns to attend an event hosted by a City of London livery company and met the woman while out drinking afterwards.
‘The next thing I remember was being rocked and seeing someone there, I freaked out,’ she told the Blackfriars Crown Court jury.
‘I did not know if it was real or not and I remember crying in the toilet,’ she added. ‘I scared myself that I could drink that much.’
She told the court she was ‘eight out of ten’ on a scale of total inebriation, having started on cranberry juice at noon and progressing to double brandy and coke, plus wine.
‘I know what I get like when I start too early,’ agreeing she was ‘binge drinking’ that day. ‘I think a lot of people do at my age, I don’t think I’m alone there.
‘Before this happened and I was out I never wanted to go home. I just wanted to enjoy myself.’
Paton says she was happily dancing with him during the evening and also embraced him, but the woman insists she has no memory of the defendant.
Prosecutor Jonathan Loades told the jury after the lunchtime celebration the woman continued drinking at The Dickens Inn in St. Katherine’s Dock then met Paton at The Dirty Martini in Bishopsgate.
She told the jury she regrets not catching the train opposite the bar and returning home to her long-term boyfriend.
The pair continued partying at Whites strip club in Aldgate before going to Paton’s Whitechapel hotel, where they were filmed on CCTV.
‘Exiting the lift she nearly falls into the flower pot. It is the Crown’s case she was very drunk at this point,’ said Mr Loades.
‘She next thing she remembers is being in her words, “Rocked.”
‘She felt herself rocking backwards and forwards as Mr Paton was having sex with her.
‘She did not know how he got there or what was going on and had one leg of her tights and one of her boots off.
‘She pushed him off and went downstairs and bumped into a stranger, who seeing her distress call the police.’
Paton was arrested and questioned in Scotland and DNA linked him with the woman.
The trial continues.
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