A sales executive broke down in tears as she told a court how she was raped by a Bradford man she met on a course.

She said Stephen Smith, 38, of Mossybank Close, Queensbury, forced her on to his hotel bed and then put her through a series of degrading sex acts.

She told an Old Bailey jury how he raped her without a condom as she drifted in and out of consciousness.

Miss X, 35, said she became pregnant and later had an abortion.

Smith, who had just become a manager at the Wakefield branch of Direct Auto Finance Ltd, was proved to be the father of the unborn child, the jury heard.

But the court was told that Miss X only went to police after a second woman employed by the same company complained that she had been molested by Smith in a different hotel room days later.

Smith denies the rape of Miss X and the indecent assault and false imprisonment of a second colleague, Miss Y, whom he allegedly attacked at an Ealing hotel last May. Miss X told the court how she turned up at the hotel in East Sussex last year for the course.

After the first day she said she ended up dining with Smith and two other women.

Miss X said Smith bought bottles of wine for the table and she started to feel light-headed.

She denied she was flirting but said they talked about sex and relationships.

At the end of the evening, Miss X and two other women joined Smith in his room and she said by then she was beginning to feel drunk.

She said they were all sitting on his bed and she was leaning against Smith's leg.

Miss X said the time came when the others returned to their rooms and she followed them out only to be blocked by Smith.

Suddenly he exposed himself to her, she said.

"I thought he was joking with me - a funny kind of joke. I asked him what he was doing and he started walking towards me.

"I said 'I don't want to have sex with you. Can't you just let me go? I won't tell anyone.' "

Miss X added that when she subsequently confronted Smith about what he had allegedly done he replied: "It was your fault. You asked for it."

The trial continues.

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