A cricketer accused of raping a sleeping woman during a sexual conquest WhatsApp ‘game’ claims the victim kissed him first and ‘instigated sex’.
Alex Hepburn denies raping a woman who claimed he began attacking her while she was asleep at his flat in Worcester Prosecutors allege Hepburn, then aged 21, raped the woman, who was also aged in her 20s, in a bedroom while Clarke, who had been sick, was asleep in the bathroom. ‘I was confused why she had asked me that question. It was no different to a normal sexual encounter.Hepburn’s defence barrister, Michelle Heeley QC, asked him: ‘Had it occurred to you that she might have thought she was having sex with Joe as opposed to you?’The court has heard the alleged victim, who had been drinking, had earlier had consensual sex with Clarke, who she had met in a nightclub.