Bournemouth trial hears allegations of rape after refusal to perform sex act for money
Defendant claims encounter was consensual
A 24-year-old man raped a woman after she refused to perform a sex act on him after having initially agreed to do so for money, a court has heard.
Mohammed Fathi Eltbie, from Egypt, is on trial at Bournemouth Crown Court charged with the rape of the woman aged in her 30s in the Charminster area of Bournemouth, Dorset, on November 5 2025.
Rebecca Fairbairn, prosecuting, told the court that the complainant had been out drinking in the area that evening before she met a man that she knew.
The defendant then arrived and spoke to the man who replied to him: “Ask her,” before Eltbie then asked the complainant: “Do you want to do business?”
Ms Fairbairn said that the complainant then agreed to perform oral sex on the defendant for £50 and they walked together to a wooded area of a nearby recreation ground.
The prosecutor said that after the complainant asked for the money, the defendant gave her his bank card but she then changed her mind and tried to leave.
Ms Fairbairn said: “She went to get up but the male started getting angry at her, pushing her down with both hands, she fell back and as she went to get back up, the man pushed her down, wrapping his legs around hers, pinning her to the ground.
“He grabbed her hair and was trying to kiss her. He then grabbed her hair, pushed her over and held her down.
“During this she was struggling, trying to push him off and repeatedly saying: ‘No don’t do it.’
“He managed to pull one leg of her trousers and underwear down. She was kicking, screaming and crying.
“He told her to shut up. In the end she felt there was nothing more she could do to stop him and so she just lay there, because the only way for it to stop was to let him do what he wanted to do. The man then raped her.”
Ms Fairbairn said that afterwards the defendant ran away from the scene before the complainant phoned police who found her in a “distressed” state.
The prosecutor said that the defendant was identified from CCTV footage and matched to a DNA sample taken from the complainant.
She said that Eltbie claimed the sex was consensual and she had only become angry because he had given her his bank card instead of cash.
The defendant, who is assisted in court by an Arabic interpreter, denies the charge and the trial continues.