Footballer Ched Evans ‘treated teen waitress with “utter contempt” when he raped her’
Prosecutors claim there was no way the woman could have consented to sex since the only contact they'd had before the alleged incident was in a kebab shop when she fell over
FOOTBALLER Ched Evans treated a teenage waitress with "utter contempt" when he raped her in a hotel room, a court heard today.
The former Wales and Manchester City striker was accused of being "callous and self-centred" when he had sex with the drunken woman without speaking a word.
The prosecuting barrister told a jury in his closing speech that it was clear the 19-year-old was too drunk to give her consent to sex in the Premier Inn hotel.
Simon Medland QC told the jury: "Ched Evans couldn't have cared less if the girl wanted sex with him or not.
"This wealthy, successful young footballer felt entitled to have her and did so regardless of what she may have wanted.
"This was rape and not consensual sex."
Evans, 27, denies raping the teenager in the hotel in Rhuddlan, North Wales, after a night out in May 2011 - and his trial is reaching its final stage.
Prosecutor Mr Medland said: "Ched Evans claimed in his evidence he would never hurt a girl.
"But we suggest that the evidence in this case show that he treated this woman with a callous and self-centred indifference, essentially indistinguishable from utter contempt.
"At the end of the 19th Century, Oscar Wilde was moved to remark that everything in life is about sex - apart from sex itself.
"Oscar Wilde is long removed from room 14 of the Premier Inn in Rhyl but you may think that this was one of his more insightful comments."
Mr Medland told the jury Evans raped the girl when she was so drunk she was "all over the place".
He said: "She had been brought to that hotel in a taxi but on the way the man who brought her there - Clayton McDonald - had alerted his friend Ched Evans that he had 'got a bird'.
"It was then Evans decided to go to the hotel."
Mr Medland said Evans then "blagged his way" into the hotel room and began having sex with the girl.
"Did she know Ched Evans was even in the room?" Mr Medland asked.
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"He had never met the girl before. The only contact he had with her was to walk over her when she fell on the floor in the kebab shop and pointed her out - laughing at her to his mates."
Mr Medland said: "She had not been in a taxi with Ched Evans and she certainly could have had no idea Ched Evans would end up in that room with her.
"He never spoke to her in room 14 and never asked her if she wanted to be intimate with him.
"He left that room as surreptitiously as he had got in as he sought to cover his identity as he left the building by lowering his head to avoid being seen by the camera.
"We say the defendant blagged his way in to that hotel and did so secretly because he wanted to have sex with 'the bird' that Clayton McDonald had 'got'.
"His case is that he has committed no crime and that this was consensual sex. If this is true then why did he take the steps that he did to lie his way into the hotel and then scuttle off through the fire escape door?"
Earlier the jury were told they were "not to judge the morals" of either the footballer or his alleged victim in his rape trial.
The judge, Mrs Justice Nicola Davies, told the seven women and five men they have two issues to consider in deciding Evans' guilt.
The judge said: ";Are you sure the complainant did not consent to sexual intercourse with the defendant?
"And two, are you sure the defendant did not reasonably believe the complainant was consenting?
";You must approach this case calmly, objectively and without emotion. "
The trial at Cardiff Crown Court continues.
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