A BOUNCER at a Blackburn nightclub allegedly raped a teenager after going back to her home in the early hours.

David Johns, 20, who was working on the door at Millennium, is said to have got into bed with the 17-year-old after telling her: "You want it."

After he was arrested Johns said there had been no sexual activity between him and the girl and commented, he "wouldn't touch her with a barge pole."

He claimed his alleged victim and her sister were jealous because he had a girlfriend, Burnley Crown Court heard.

The jury was told that a couple of months after the alleged assault in February, Johns shook his fist towards the girls in another club.

Johns, then of The Crescent, Blackburn, denies rape and intimidating a witness.

Mark Lamberty, prosecuting, told the court a group went back to the home of the girl and her sister, and Johns was heard to remark, "It depends which one you end up in bed with." The teenager went to bed between 3am and 4am and was awoken soon afterwards by the defendant shaking her shoulder.

He left when her sister appeared, but later returned and said to the teenager "You want it."

The girl said "No," and told Johns to go downstairs. But the defendant, who was described as "six feet tall and well built." lay on top of her. He then had sex with her.

Johns asked the girl if she was on the pill, kissed her on the cheek and left. The defendant was afterwards overheard telling another youth that he had been having sex with the girl when her sister walked in.

Mr Lamberty said the alleged victim made a complaint of rape a couple of days afterwards after she left college upset.

When Johns heard of the allegation, he said he wouldn't touch the girl with a barge pole. He told police he had not had sex with the girl but had simply gone looking round the house.

A couple of months later Johns, then bailed on condition he do not contact, communicate with or approach the sisters, was by chance in the same Blackburn club, Never Never Land. The defendant made a gesture towards the girls shaking his fist in their direction.

When he was arrested he said he had simply walked past. It had been a chance encounter and he had not made any gesture.

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