Rio gives evidence in alleged rape case

MANCHESTER United football star Rio Ferdinand yesterday denied he got a man to “fix” girls for him at a nightclub and that he was warned

The England defender, who was giving evidence at the trial of another man accused of attempted rape, agreed he was spoken to by bouncers at a Leeds nightclub in January last year and that he was told to ‘chill out’.

He also admitted he and his then team-mate Michael Duberry accepted a lift from a man called Reds he knew from the nightclub to a Leeds hotel along with two girls.