A man accused of raping a student after she fell asleep on his sofa has told a jury they did not have sex.
Robert Litster, aged 30, said his only contact with the 20-year-old woman was putting a duvet over her.
He told a jury at Exeter Crown Court he had no explanation for why his DNA was found inside the alleged victim in forensic tests carried out after she went to the police four days later.
Litster, of Landscore, Crediton, denies raping the student at a flat in the town in February this year.
The prosecution say he took advantage of the woman after she fell asleep at his girlfriend's flat after a night out and she woke to find him on top of her.
She was so upset that her mother eventually persuaded her to tell her what happened and called the police.
The woman said she could remember Litster trying to kiss her, biting her neck and trying to take off her jeans but had passed out and only had a sketchy recollection of sex.
A medical examination recovered samples of his DNA from close to the entrance to her womb.
Litster told the jury he did not have sex with the complainant. He said he had seen her asleep on a sofa, put a duvet over her, and gone to bed.
His defence barrister Mr Paul Grumbar asked the jury to consider whether both the woman and his client were lying and consider whether consensual sex had taken place.
He said the woman was embarrassed afterwards because she had slept with someone else's boyfriend and had love bites on her neck while he could not admit what happened to his partner.
He said:"It might be the case that there was a drunken episode that both of them wished had not happened."
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