A 22-year-old woman who claims a friend raped her after they had kissed and cuddled on her bed has denied she was making the allegation because she had felt "insulted".
The woman yesterday also rejected suggestions by the defence for 25-year-old Justin John Martin that she had self-inflicted the bruising found on her face by a doctor after the alleged sex attack in September 1995.
Mr Martin, from Clarawood House, Belfast, denies raping the woman in her south Belfast flat. The defence lawyer, Mr Charles Adair QC, put it to the woman that it was only natural she would feel "insulted" because after consenting to have sex with Mr Martin she knew he was going to go home to his pregnant girlfriend.
The woman, who admitted knowing Mr Martin for several years and visiting him in London, where he had worked, denied she had consented to have sex with him. She admitted that when they first met she had slept with him because she found him attractive, but she denied they had had sex.
"There's liking someone and fancying someone, but there's a difference. I didn't mind kissing and fondling because I liked him, but that's as far as I wanted to go," she said. The woman admitted that after she had broken up with a boyfriend she ended up in hospital and had to undergo psychiatric treatment for eight months. But she attributed her breakdown to drink and drugs and despair at finishing with someone she had loved. The case continues today.