‘Rapist footballer’ Ched Evans told police girls threw themselves at footballers because they’re rich
FOOTBALLER Ched Evans told police women "throw themselves at him" and that it is "part and parcel of being a footballer," his rape trial heard.
Evans told officers he had previously been in threesomes with his fellow footballer Clayton McDonald, jurors heard.
The Chesterfield forward denies raping a 19-year-old at a Premier Inn in 2011.
A transcript of his police interview was read aloud to a jury at Cardiff Crown Court today.
In it he said he had previously been in threesomes with his fellow footballer Clayton McDonald - and said that women "throw themselves" at him.
"It's part and parcel of being a footballer," the jury heard.
Chesterfield striker Evans told police during the interview how seeing McDonald naked was "no big deal", after previously getting into a threesome when they both played for Manchester City.
Evans said: "Me and Clay were in a threesome when we lived together in Manchester about four or five years ago.
"It's not a normal thing but in the situation we're in things like that happen. The girls like it. They've got two footballers there.
"Footballers are rich and girls like that."
Evans described the moment he walked into the Premier Inn to see Mr McDonald having sex with the alleged victim in his interview.
He described earlier receiving a text message from Mr McDonald after they left a nightclub saying "I've got a girl," - and then followed him to the hotel.
Evans said: "I text him back to say 'I'm coming' or something like that.
"I also wanted to see who the girl was. It was a laugh and I wanted to see if I knew her.
"She was saying 'f*** me harder, f*** me harder', and Clay asked 'can my mate join in', and she was like 'yeah.'"
Evans said he continued having sex with the girl which led to McDonald saying "I'm leaving."
Evans said: "I told him I was going too. I said I'm not staying by myself. I have a girlfriend, or I would've stayed."
He added the girl seemed to be "enjoying herself" and added: "We were all drunk and no one was drunker than anyone else."
Earlier in the day the court heard how his alleged victim arrived at a friend's house in a hysterical state hours after allegedly being raped Evans.
Cardiff Crown Court heard the complainant woke up naked and confused in a room at the Premier Inn in Rhyl which had been paid for by the Wales striker.
On the third day of the case, jurors heard the complainant arrived at a friend's house around an hour after waking up alone on May 30 before banging on the door loudly.
The witness, who cannot be named, told police in a statement: "When I opened the door she was crying hysterically. She was sobbing, trying to catch her breath and I gave her a hug to calm her down.
"When she calmed down, she told me that she had woken up in the Premier Inn naked and had no idea how she had got there."
Evans, who has played for Wales and Man City, is accused of raping the woman in a hotel near Rhyl, North Wales, before leaving via the fire escape.
The waitress told police she woke up "naked and alone" in a hotel bed after allegedly being raped by footballer Evans, a court heard.
The woman was 19-years-old when she was so "out of it", she could not consent to having sex with Evans let alone remember it, jurors were told.
In a video played to Cardiff Crown Court the woman - who cannot be named for legal reasons - told police: "I felt tipsy but not out of control."
She said she had no recollection of leaving the Zu bar in Rhyl but had a "vague recollection of being in a kebab shop".
She said: "It's just a blur. I just remember being there and eating a pizza.
"That's the last thing I remember. I don't remember surroundings I just remember having a pizza.
"I'm guessing I walked there."
The court was told how the woman got a taxi back to the Premier Inn in Rhuddlan with Port Vale footballer Clayton McDonald who met her in the kebab shop.
Jurors were told she had sex with him and was later raped by Evans.
Prosecutor Simon Medland QC told the court a hotel receptionist walked past the room where the alleged incident took place and heard people having sex inside.
Mr Medland continued: “He heard a male voice saying from behind the door quite loudly and forcefully ‘Are you gonna suck that c*** or what?’
“There was no female voiced reply to this but he could hear higher-pitched sounds, like squealing.
“Having not got an answer to that question the same male voice asked ‘No?’ in an enquiring tone.”
Evans' alleged victim told police in video evidence made a day later on May 31 2011 that she could not remember the journey or the night - and woke up alone in bed.
She said: "My clothes were scattered around on the floor.
"I just didn't know how I got there, if I had gone there with anyone. I just felt dead confused. I didn't know where I was. I felt dazed."
Evans' fiancée Natasha Massey bit her nails in the public gallery as the alleged victim gave her evidence from behind a screen at Cardiff Crown Court yesterday.
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Prosecutor Simon Medland QC said: "She was that intoxicated – for whatever reason – that she didn't really know what on earth was happening."
The court heard his friend, Port Vale player Clayton McDonald, had earlier left from the front door of the hotel.
But Mr Medland said: "Having finished in that room, Ched Evans, then left surreptitiously by the fire exit door, not going back through the reception of the hotel. He then went away."
The court was told Evans had earlier been convicted of rape but his friend McDonald had been cleared.
His conviction was later overturned and a retrial was ordered.
The court heard the rape happened in May 2011 when the woman was 19 and Evans was 22.
Mr Medland said: "She had certainly had several drinks but not really any more than she normally would, perhaps indeed fewer.
"Yet she was much more drunk than she would expect to have been. You will see footage from CCTV of her trying to walk.
"She is seen to be very unsteady on her feet. One explanation which she gives for this is a feeling that her drink may have been 'spiked'.
"Let me say now very clearly that there is no evidence at all that this defendant or indeed anyone else did actually spike (her) drink.
"What we do say is that she was very intoxicated that night without really being able to account for how she had come to be in that state.
"Both Clayton McDonald and Ched Evans were young men out on the town. Ched Evan was quite a local celebrity. He was a handsome and fit professional footballer, and as such a wealthy young man."
Judge Mrs Justice Nicola Davies told jurors “this case has history”.
She ordered jurors to avoid "all social media" during the course of the trial.
The court heard yesterday how cocaine and cannabis were found in samples taken from the 19-year-old allegedly raped by Evans.
She told police she had tried the drugs before, but had not taken them recently.
She said she had drunk two large glasses of wine on the night along with four vodkas and a sambuca.
The former Manchester City and Sheffield United striker denies one count of rape on May 30, 2011, at Rhyl, North Wales.
The trial continues.
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