Irish footballer raped me, student tells court

A law student told a court today how she was raped by an Arsenal footballer after a night out at a West End club.

Her voice faltering, the 22-year-old claimed she had “absolutely no energy to resist in any way” when goalkeeper, Graham Stack, currently on loan to Reading, allegedly attacked her in his flat.

The woman was ill and trying to sleep when she was set upon by the player and sexually assaulted by his friend, Allan Smillie, in the early hours of September 1 last year, the jury heard.

“I saw Graham Stack in the doorway of the room completely naked” Croydon Crown Court was told.

“He was smiling... I was really confused.

“He got on top of me. I think I remember his trying to kiss around my neck and face area.

“He started to have sex with me. He raped me.”

From behind screens she told the packed courtroom: “It was really, really sudden. There was absolutely no warning whatsoever. It was completely out of the blue. I was aware of what was happening, I just felt completely unable to do anything.

“I was almost passed out but saying ’get off me, get off’ and ’I just want to sleep’. They just totally ignored me.”

She claimed Stack only stopped attacking her when her friend called out his name.

Stack, of Ladygate Lane, Ruislip, west London, who today wore a dark suit, white shirt and dark tie, denied one count of rape and one count of sexual assault at an earlier hearing.

Smillie, operations manager from Boundaries Road, Feltham, west London, who today wore a black suit and shirt and black and silver striped tie, pleaded not guilty earlier to two counts of sexual assault.