A drinker has told how a woman stabbed him in the head after suddenly accusing him of rape while they were having sex on a friend's sofa.
Jason Jenkins said the 24-year-old woman had been awake and a willing participant in sex but had suddenly turned on him and accused him of rape.
He said they had both been drinking at pubs and clubs in Exeter before going back to a friend's house in the Newtown area of the city where they had started making love.
He insisted she was sober enough to consent to sex but then become hysterical and violent and armed herself with two knives which she used to stab him in the head.
He was found staggering around near Sidwell Street with a wound that needed six stitches. He told police at the scene he had been bottled by three strangers but next day reported being stabbed by the woman.
Officers investigating the case ended up arresting him after they interviewed the woman and decided to treat her as a complainant in a rape case rather than a suspect in a stabbing.
Jenkins, aged 42, of Pellinore Road, Exeter, denies raping the woman in September last year.
The prosecution say she was very drunk and had fallen asleep when she awoke to find Jenkins having sex with him and stabbed him in an attempt to get out of the room.
Jenkins said she had agreed to sex and had been awake with her eyes open but had changed suddenly half way through intercourse.
He said:"She reacted to what I was doing. She put her legs around me and was gyrating with me and we were having sex. I could see her face and her eyes were open and she was looking happy.
"She had her knickers on at first but they were rubbing and I took one leg out. She took them off and threw them on the floor. We continued to have sex.
"Her eyes were not open all the time, but she was definitely awake. After her knickers came off we kissed and her eyes may have closed, but that was not because she was asleep.
"At one point she rolled over and faced the back of the sofa in a foetal position. I remember pulling the hair from her face and asking if she was okay and what was the matter.
"She looked up and gave me a really strange look. She was wide eyed and shot a look at me in a way which freaked me out. Then she pushed me off and said 'get off me' and asked 'what are you doing? What are you doing?
"I had my jeans around my ankles and asked her what she was on about. She went upstairs."
Jenkins said he followed her into her friend's bedroom where she punched him before fetching two knives which she used to stab him as he tried to hold her off.
He said he was ordered out of the house by the owner and then taken to hospital. He said he lied to police because he did not want to cause the woman's friends trouble.
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