Friend 'held door while Jack Tweed raped teenager', court told

The widower of reality TV star Jade Goody allegedly raped a teenager while his friend held the bedroom door shut and told him: “Do what you’ve got to do.”

Jack Tweed is accused of attacking the then-19-year-old after meeting her at a nightclub in London’s West End on September 4 last year.

Once the victim was back at Tweed’s east London home, the 22-year-old club promoter and his friend Anthony Davis raped her, Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London heard.

Linda Strudwick, prosecuting, said the victim and her friends went to Tweed’s house in Brandesbury Square, Repton Park, Woodford Green, east London, after a night out at the Embassy club in Mayfair.

The victim was shy, sober and “made it plain to both defendants that she was not interested in them sexually”, Ms Strudwick said.

But Davis pushed her into a bedroom and called for Tweed to join him, she added.

Ms Strudwick went on: “They knew, the Crown say, that she was frightened and did not want to be alone with them.

“Anthony Davis held the door shut, saying to Jack Tweed: ’Don’t worry Jack, I’ve got the door, do what you’ve got to do’.”

Tweed denies two counts of rape while Davis denies one count of the same charge.

Tweed, who married 'Big Brother' star Goody, 27, shortly before she lost her battle against cervical cancer in March 2009, wore a white jumper over a white shirt in the dock.

Davis, a 25-year-old estate agent, of Stradbroke Drive, Chigwell, Essex, wore a black suit and tie with a white shirt.

The court heard that Tweed and Davis were pestering the young woman for a threesome.

At first she thought they were just “lads being lads”.

But as she realised what was happening she became “frozen with fear”.

Ms Strudwick said Davis and Tweed “were predatory and, whether they agreed this or not, they seemed to work together”.

The court heard that Davis lured the young woman into the bedroom by telling her: “Come and look at this.”

Ms Strudwick said: “Anthony Davis pushed her into the bedroom, calling for Jack Tweed. They shut the door and began to manhandle her.

“They were asking for ’a threesome’. She said ’No’. They started to pester her. They were touching her. They asked her for a threesome again and she said ’No’.”

The court heard that both men were “grabbing at her, pushing her” but at this stage she was still trying to laugh it off.

Ms Strudwick said: “She did not imagine that they had targeted her as the quiet one, the one they could bully into submission.”

The woman’s friends interrupted the scene and she was able to leave the bedroom.

Later she asked to borrow some jogging bottoms to “cover up”.

Ms Strudwick said: “Anthony Davis then grabbed her and pushed her into the bedroom. She tried to walk out but Anthony Davis called for Jack Tweed, who came straight in.”

The court heard that Tweed began kissing her and pushed her against the window sill.

Ms Strudwick said: “She was now beginning to become very nervous and scared. Her friends tried to get into the room but they were told to go away and that made her more scared.

“She felt trapped. Jack Tweed’s actions had changed. He was now more heavy-handed, more forceful when he pushed her against the window sill.

“She describes her feelings as never having been so scared in all her life. She did not move. She kept her eyes shut. Her friends pushed at the door asking if she was OK.

“Anthony Davis said: ’Don’t worry, Jack, I’ve got the door. Do what you’ve got to do’. That surely put fear into her. It paralysed her frozen with fear.”

The court heard that, after Tweed raped her the first time, the young woman was able to push him away and move towards the door.

But he pushed her back on to the bed.

Ms Strudwick said: “Even if he had thought for a moment that her silence, her frozen state, when he pushed her on to the window sill had been consent, he now knew that she wanted to leave.

“He was preventing her and using force to push her on to the bed. This was not a joke or a game.”

The court heard that Tweed then raped her again and she was “in a world of her own, trying to block out what was happening”.

The jury heard she was struggling to escape as Davis then raped her.

Both defendants are on bail.