A WOMAN claimed she was beaten with a broomstick, made to dance naked and brutally raped.
The alleged attack was so horrific that the Advertiser cannot reveal the full extent of her ordeal.
The 27-year-old Walcot resident – who cannot be named for legal reasons – earlier this week described how she was shoved into a transit van in June 2007, beaten and tortured by alleged drug dealers. In court it was claimed that the one-time addict had stolen £1,000 from the men.
In Bristol Crown Court yesterday she claimed that the five-strong gang took her to a friend’s flat which she believed to have been in Peckham, London. She said that before the rape members of the gang told her to ‘strip off’ while dancing to music coming from one of their mobile phones. In court the woman said: “I hesitated for a few moments then he yelled it again. “He told me to ‘strip off’. I had to take all my clothes off. “He then told me that he was going to do what his dad did to him when he misbehaved – and he told me to stand on one leg.” She added that as she stood naked, and on one leg for 10 minutes at a time, two men approached her.
The court heard how Modele Adenekan stood on one side of her with a broom and Shane Nevins stood on the other. She added: “They said they were going to ask questions and if I lied they were going to whack me in the ribs, if I flinched I was going to get a punch in the face. “Dollars (Adenekan) wanted to know the truth about his money. “He asked me about his money and I told him I mucked up and spent it. He swung it, and I flinched.
“Then Lincoln (Nevins) punched me in the face.” The woman then said that she was made to do naked press-ups to get her clothes back. Later on when three of the gang-members slept on the couch she told the jury how two of the men came back and woke her. They were then alleged to have had a conversation with Adenekan asking if they could sleep with the woman and pay him, in order to help her pay off her debts.
She said a man known as Chris (Vernon) came into the room she was in and told her to strip. “But I didn’t, because I didn’t want to do anything with either of them,.” she said.“But my trousers were taken off, I kept saying no but I was so frightened it was like I was paralysed.” The woman then described how the pair took turns raping her while the other made her commit a sex act.
She then told how the next day she agreed to sell drugs for Adenekan again, to help pay off her debts, before he drove her to a train station, gave her crack and heroin wraps, and told her to go home and wait.
Iffy Ndidi, 21, Tunasho Chisanga, 29, Christopher Vernon, 31, Modele Adenekan, 22, and Shane Nevins all deny kidnap. Ndidi, Vernon and Nevins deny conspiracy to supply class A drugs, admitted by Chisanga and Adenekan. And Vernon and Chisanga stand accused of raping the woman. The case continues
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