Valentin Kryzyzyk allegedly raped woman in her sleep in London

A wealthy businessman allegedly raped a woman in her sleep at his luxury apartment after sharing a taxi home with her from an exclusive London nightclub.

Valentin Kryzyzyk, 27, from Battersea, is accused of raping the woman in his bedroom after a night out at celebrity haunt, Maddox Club, in Mayfair.

The woman claimed she fled from his flat without her bra or top, and told police: ‘I just wanted to get out’. 

At Southwark Crown Court, Christopher Amis, prosecuting, said: ‘This case concerns the rape of a young woman at this defendant’s home address after she left a nightclub in the West End of London with him in the early hours of the morning on the May 9 2015.

‘The complainant is a Romanian woman aged 27, she went out that night to the West End with two good friends of hers.

‘She went out with her friends first of all to a nightclub in or near Oxford Street where they remained until about one in the morning.

‘The group then left to go on to another venue known as the Maddox nightclub, also in the West End of London.’

Mr Amis said the woman left the club, leaving her friends inside, at around 4am because she was feeling tired and wanted to go home.

He told jurors: ‘Having walked out the nightclub she moves around outside the front of the club, you can see her going backwards and forwards on the street outside the nightclub.

‘It’s apparent what she was doing was looking, without success, for a taxi. If you look at her quite carefully, you might conclude she is fairly wobbly on her feet.’

The woman is then seen re-entering the club just after 4am.

The court heard she couldn’t be seen leaving because CCTV cameras stopped recording after 5am.

Mr Amis said: ‘We do know that she must have left that nightclub between about 5am and 5.15am because other CCTV footage pick her up at 5.33am.

‘By that time she was walking with the defendant towards the defendant’s home address in Battersea’.

The pair were holding hands as they walked into the building, the court heard.

‘The Crown say it’s possible to conclude what the footage shows is this defendant leading a very drunk complainant by her hand towards his apartment block’ said Mr Amis.

The woman claims she went inside the flat with Kryzyzyk and had a cigarette on his balcony while he told her about his work which she believed to be ‘managing or owned some restaurants’.

She became overcome with tiredness and was shown into the bedroom by Kryzyzyk.

As he got into bed next to her, the woman said she told Kryzyzyk she was not interested in having sex with him.

The prosecutor added: ‘She thought that the defendant didn’t take that particularly well and remembers having to be rather emphatic with him that she didn’t want sex with him.

‘She thinks she may have even pushed him away. That’s all she remembers before she fell into a deep sleep, on her back, in his bed.

‘The next thing that she remembers is waking up about an hour later. She was immediately aware of the fact her clothes were in a completely different state – her bra and her top had been taken off her, and her skirt had been pulled up over her midriff and pushed up towards the top half of her body.’

Kryzyzyk claimed not to have ever met the complainant and said he believed he was out of the country at the time of the alleged incident

She ran out of the building and called police at the end of the road before hailing herself a taxi home, jurors heard.

The woman said in police interview she initially thought she was dressed in a different item of clothing when she woke up, as she hadn’t realised the top of her long length skirt had been pulled up over her chest like a dress..

In the interview the woman tells an officer: ‘My clothes weren’t on properly.

‘My top was off and my bra. My skirt was on me like a dress, it was pulled up. That really worried me, I was confused.

‘I just wanted to get out there. I had my hand bag and went out really quickly. At one point he was holding them and he was like do you not just want to take these.

‘I remember getting to the main road and I called 999. I was really shocked, couldn’t believe it had happened to me.’

Valentin Kryzyzyk, 27, from Battersea, is accused of raping the woman in his bedroom after a night out at celebrity haunt, Maddox Club, in Mayfair

The woman took a photo of one of the blocks in the apartment complex which police later used to identify the Howard Building in Queenstown Road, Battersea.

DNA swabs taken from the woman later that morning were matched to Kryzyzyk’s profile in February last year and he was arrested and charged.

Mr Amis said: ‘A DNA specialist has said there’s a one in a billion chance that the DNA came from someone other than and unrelated to the defendant.’

In police interview Kryzyzyk said he did had not had a one night stand since 2012, and had been in a long term relationship with another woman since then.

He claimed he would not let a stranger into his home because he owned ‘lots of valuable things’, jurors heard.

Kryzyzyk claimed not to have ever met the complainant and said he believed he was out of the country at the time of the alleged incident.

Mr Amis added that he is now expected to claim that sex was consensual.

Kryzyzyk denies one count of rape. The trial continues.