Footballers ‘took photos during sex assault on woman’
She said she could not remember getting there and was horrified to find mobile phone pictures of fourfootballers assaulting her.
Anton Rodgers was asleep in the bed wearing only his boxers and when she woke him, he seemed unconcerned, she told the Old Bailey.
The woman, who was 19 during the alleged assault in Jul 2011, gave evidence against the four players from behind a curtain.
She said she discovered the pictures after asking to use Rodgers’s phone.
Brighton and Hove Albion players Rodgers, 19, Lewis Dunk, 21, and George Barker, 21, and former team-mate Steve Cook, 21, who now plays for Bournemouth, deny sexual assault. The four men also deny voyeurism.
Members of their families, including Rodgers’s father, watched the trial from the public gallery.
The prosecution allege the players took advantage of the teenager’s unconscious state to commit sex acts and take pictures of her.
The woman said she woke up next to Rodgers, adding: “I felt ashamed, embarrassed. I couldn’t believe it had happened.
“I was angry. I told him to delete them. He said he was not going to delete them. He was not at all concerned.”
She said another player, Ben Sampayo, who was also sleeping in the room at the Jury’s Inn hotel, woke up as they were arguing.
She told jurors: “I explained about the photographs. He said ‘I am not going to lie. If I were awake, I would have joined in’.
The woman said she reported the incident to police naming the players six months later after another player hinted at putting the images on YouTube.
After asking to use Rodgers’s phone, she started scrolling through its picture gallery because she suspected something had happened.
The woman said she called up around 10 pictures and could not believe what she was seeing.
She said in one picture, Barker had written GB in shaving foam on her buttocks and was posing with his thumbs up and smiling.
The case continues.
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