UK-Based Nigerian Doctor Allegedly Rapes Woman on Staircase
An NHS doctor ‘forcefully’ held a woman down on her staircase, lifted up her dress and raped her, a court heard. Later in the same evening, Dr Osareme Edeoghon, 39, allegedly raped the woman again while she was on the phone to her friend, jurors heard. Prosecutor Robert Harding told how the medic had been invited to the woman’s house but, without saying a word, started having sex with her as soon as she opened the front door. Jurors were told how the woman said ‘no’ and told Edeoghon ‘maybe later’, but his grip was so ‘tight’ that she ‘couldn’t move her hands’. The medic is also accused of raping the alleged victim a third time, an incident the woman described as a ‘violation’. Jurors were told that Edeoghon was based at the NHS hospital in Basingstoke, Hampshire, at the time of the alleged incidents. Mr Harding said: ‘There was no consent given, and it would have been clear to any person that she did not consent.’ The prosecutor told Winchester Crown Court that Edeoghon and the woman knew each other and she was expecting him at her house. He said that when Edeoghon arrived ‘She greeted him at the door, but without any invitation from her, he started to have sex with her.’ Mr Harding continued: ‘She was not consenting to this, and it would have been clear to any person that she did not consent. ‘She told him things, such as ‘no’, and even went as far as to say ‘maybe later on’. ‘After the defendant finished having sex, the complainant had a shower and busied herself as best she could cooking dinner. ‘She then returned to her bedroom and used her phone to call a friend. The defendant proceeded to try to have sex with her. There was no consent given.’ During his opening of the case on Monday, Mr Harding said that the woman ‘spoke with police about the allegations’ and told officers she had also been orally raped. The police interview with the woman was played to the court, in which she said: ‘I wanted to report rape, that he raped me.’ She told how the doctor had arrived at her home by taxi and added: ‘When I went down to the door, he did not say anything, and he turned me around and lifted up my dress. ‘I was like ‘no what are you doing?’ and he continued. So, I said ‘no’, and I said ‘maybe later’. But he just did not say anything, he just kept turning me and lifting up my dress. ‘By this time, I was at the stairs, or he had pushed me to the stairs. He started to have sex with me.’ The woman told how she was restrained by her arms as she was ‘pushed’ onto the stairs. ‘I tried to say no and stop but I couldn’t because he was forceful’, she added. ‘I couldn’t move my hands because he was holding my hands and turning me around. Because of how tight he was holding me; I couldn’t lift my arms.’ After the alleged attack the woman said she went upstairs to shower ‘because I just felt dirty anyway’. After dinner, she was in her room on her phone when ‘he came into the room and did the same thing again’, she said. The woman continued: ‘I was on the phone to my friend, and he came in out of nowhere again. He pulled my underwear down, moved my leg. ‘I just remember him being over me and me trying to figure out what to do in that situation because I am on the phone. I couldn’t say anything because I was on the phone.’ When a police officer asked what she was talking to her friend about on the phone, she said: ‘We were talking about carnival and the events and where to get tickets.’ The officer also asked how he would know she was not consenting, and she said: ‘I was on the phone and not inviting him.’ She said if she were not on the phone, she would have ‘pushed him off me and said no, I was tired.’ She said she had work the following day and would have told him that she would be too tired for work. She added: ‘It took time to register what was happening, and it was difficult to say stop while my friend was on the phone or to say stop because of what he was doing.’ During the interview, the woman, who can’t be named for legal reasons, alleged that she had also been orally raped by Edeoghon. The woman said: ‘That time I did say no, I turned away and covered my mouth. ‘I moved away from him because I just felt used. So I moved away to try to control the situation and ended up having sex to stop what was happening. It just felt like a violation.’ Edeoghon from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, denies three counts of rape. The trial continues.
