A FENCER accused of raping a woman while he was walking her home has told a court if she had told him to stop having sex with her, he would have done so.

Giving evidence during his trial at Ipswich Crown Court, Shane Farrow yesterday denied forcing himself on the woman.

Asked by his barrister Tara McCarthy: “Did you ignore her when she said she didn’t want to do it?”

Farrow replied: “She didn’t say that. If she had said that I would have stopped.”

Farrow, 36, of Spruce Avenue, Colchester, has denied raping the woman in February 2020.

It has been alleged he raped the woman after drinking and taking drugs.

Joanne Eley, prosecuting, said after the incident the woman had called her husband and told him she’d been raped and told him to call the police.

She said she felt degraded and had screamed “What have you done?” at Farrow and told him he wasn’t going to get away with it.

In a police interview read to the jury, Farrow denied raping the woman and claimed they had consensual sex.

He told police while he was walking the woman home, she had asked him for a cuddle and had kissed him.

Farrow said he was a “happily married man” and had been shocked when she kissed him but had kissed her back.

He claimed the alleged victim had put her hand inside his shorts and had then pulled her trousers down and had fallen back pulling him on top of her.

Farrow said although there hadn’t been any conversation between them while they were having sex she “hadn’t not consented”.

He said the woman had not appeared to be drunk and he was “shocked and devastated “ when he was arrested by police.

Farrow told police he and the woman had been drinking at a house in Colchester and she had talked to him about the lack of fun in her sex life with her husband.

He said he believed the woman had made up the rape allegation because she was covered in mud and it was her way of “getting out of what they had done”.

  • The trial continues.