A MAN accused of raping a woman said she asked for sex after he rescued her from a clifftop where she was trying to take her own life, a jury heard.

Ahmed Almyram, 31, is alleged to have pursued the woman from a Bournemouth bar and followed her to a cliff edge where she climbed the fence to get away from him during the incident on July 7.

The woman says she attempted to fight Almyram off while he bit her on the lips and face during the alleged rape by the Red Arrows memorial on East Cliff, Bournemouth.

During his trial at Bournemouth Crown Court on Tuesday, detective sergeant Marcus McCorkell and prosecutor Rob Welling read jurors a transcript of the defendant's police interview which happened on July 9.

The defendant said the pair were dancing and drinking in Camel Bar and when he left to return to his room at the Britannia Hotel, she was waiting for him outside the club.

The defendant added that he later left her to speak to some friends, where she again waited for him.

He said the woman was not ‘capable’ of walking by herself and that he was worried that nearby homeless people would attempt to take her money and phone, so he stayed to help her.

He said she was hungry and while searching for food the pair walked to the seaside so that she could ‘sober up’.

The defendant told police that he could not speak English and could not understand the woman but was trying to help her.

Almyram said that when they arrived at East Cliff, the woman climbed over the fence, wanting to take her life.

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He then jumped over with her and said she was ‘struggling and resisting and pushing him away’.

The defendant said he called over a woman who was passing by and helped to talk her back over the fence.

“We sat down and comforted her, the lady patted her shoulder while comforting her,” Almyram said.

After the woman left, he said he was stroking his alleged victim’s hair to comfort her when she asked to have sex with him.

Almyram said he was in a state and also distressed after the incident on the cliff edge and had no sexual intentions throughout the night.

“I swear I did not want sex but she asked for it," he said. 

When asked by officers why he had sex when he did not want to, he said: “ I did something good for her. I was drunk.”

He added: “I am weak. I am human, we all make mistakes.”

He said the pair slept together consensually and when they finished, she asked for more but when he said no, she got aggressive and he left.

The woman later told police that during the incident she attempted to call 999 but typed 666 and happened to have accidentally taken a screenshot of this.

When asked about it the defendant said: “Maybe she wanted to create problems for me because I would not stay longer.”

Almryam denies one charge of rape and the trial continues.