A POLICE officer described a visit to a hotel bedroom after an alleged sexual assault by Poole Pirates star Darcy Ward.

PC Elizabeth Renshaw was sent to a room at the Premier Inn on Holes Bay Road in Poole in the early hours of August 18 last year.

She told Bournemouth Crown Court yesterday there were empty cans and bottles and stains on a duvet and on a wet wipe.

There was a partial handprint on a wall.

PC Renshaw had gone to the room with the 17-year-old alleged victim, who had travelled down from the Midlands for the Pirates contest the previous night with Birmingham Brummies.

PC Renshaw found the girl’s underwear and the girl became “upset”.

PC Renshaw said: “She became hysterical.

“She was crying. She was beside herself.”

The room was sealed off as a crime scene.

PC Renshaw had been called to Poole General Hospital at 1.45am earlier that morning where she met the girl and a female friend who had been staying in the same room.

PC Renshaw said the friend had found the alleged victim sitting up in the bed with no pants on.

Australian born Darcy Ward, aged 20, was twice the world under 21 speedway champion.

He is charged alongside a 17-year-old who cannot be named. A third male who was present in the room was not charged.

The court also heard from PC Simon Fricker.

He went to the Sturminster Marshall home of Pirates manager Neil Middleditch at 4.59am on August 18 to look for Ward and was told the rider was sleeping inside.

Ward, 20, of Poole Road, Sturminster Marshall, and his co-defendant deny the charges, and the case continues.