'Goalie and girl kissed passionately' rape trial told

The best friend of an Arsenal footballer accused of raping a law student after meeting her in a West End club told a court today he saw them kiss “passionately”, their bodies “entwined”.

Allan Smillie told Croydon Crown Court that just minutes after he and the alleged victim had been kissing and touching each other at goalkeeper Graham Stack’s flat on September 1 last year, she turned towards the player and they kissed.