Pair ‘filmed themselves raping woman and shared pictures in WhatsApp group called “The Gruesome Threesome”‘

TWO friends created a sick WhatsApp group called ‘The Gruesome Threesome’ to share trophy pictures after raping a woman, a court has heard.

Jesse Burgoine, 28, and Artjom Nepryahin, 25, shared partially naked pictures of the unnamed victim who had passed out drunk following a night out, Nottingham crown court was told.

She sobbed in court today as barristers defending the two university rowers cross-examined her.

The victim was allegedly targeted after they met the “extremely drunk” young woman at Coco Tang bar in Nottingham.

Jurors were played a graphic 24-second clip on Monday which appeared to show Burgoine having sex with her.

He is alleged to have taken her back to a flat alongside Nepryahin in December 2014 after she lost her two friends.

Nepryahin is accused of taking the woman's pulse and filming what was happening as she lay passed out on a sofa.

The court heard that when she came around the pair were engaging in sexual activity with her.

Terrified, she struggled to push the men off and even “played dead” before grabbing her clothes and leaving the flat.

Vanessa Marshall, defending Burgoine, said: "I suggest when you left Coco Tang you knew exactly what you were doing.

"You were going back to have some fun, some sex, with these two men who you had been dancing very provocatively with on the dance floor."

The student replied: "I was so drunk I didn't know where I was."

Miss Marshall said: "You got out because you wanted to. To continue the fun that happened in the club."

But the victim responded: "I wouldn't call what happened to me fun."

She went on to describe how she struggled to tell anyone about the alleged attack, saying: "I wanted my mum. I know my mum well.

"I went quietly into the house so I wouldn't scare her and wake her.

"I opened my mum's door. I didn't say anything at first. Then she saw me and I just rambled on, and she tried to make sense of everything.

"I didn't tell her I'd been raped at first. I didn't know how to say the word. I just needed my mum to hold me, to make me feel safe. I will never drink again, I'm terrified."

Yesterday, while opening the prosecution case, Tina Dempster referred to the pictures that were found on the group, including one of the victim’s bottom.

She said: “That is a photo that not only did they take, they sent it to others."

Later, Miss Dempster played CCTV of the woman inside the club and said she was "extremely drunk" when she arrived.

She told the jury that later that night Nepryahin took the woman by her hand and twirled her around as she danced.

Miss Dempster added: "She effectively fell onto Burgoine's neck and gave him a kiss.

"They targeted her and picked on her because she was drunk."

The court heard Burgoine and Nepryahin were members of a WhatsApp group called 'The Gruesome Threesome' with a third person.

Miss Dempster added: "It's quite clear, when you hear telephone evidence and the exchanges between them, that they see it as a joke to sleep with women.

"Mr Nepryahin kept score of the women he slept with.

"You might think, on hearing the evidence, the drunker the woman is, the easier it is to sleep with her.

"Mr Nepryahin tells someone the following morning: 'It couldn't have been easier if we tried'."

The woman reported the incident to police and went with an officer to the apartments where door-to-door inquiries led them to Nepryahin.

After being arrested both men told police it had been a consensual sexual encounter.

Miss Dempster said: "It was Artjom Nepryahin who said she had fallen asleep on the sofa after sex, and at no point was she ever too drunk to consent to sexual intercourse and at no point did she pass out."

Burgoine, of Wrestlingworth, Beds, and Nepryahin, of Liverpool, both deny two rape charges.

The trial continues.

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