Jack Tweed's friend says 'rape victim did not say no'
By
Beth Hale
Last updated at 5:46 PM on 19th April 2010
Accused: Jack Tweed arrives in court this morning
A student who claims she was raped by Jack Tweed 'did not protest' as the alleged attack unfolded, a court heard yesterday.
A property developer friend of Tweed, who is also accused of raping the girl, gave his own account of what happened during the late night house party.
Anthony Davis, 26, admitted standing in the room watching while Tweed, 22, the widower of reality TV star Jade Goody, and the blonde student, then 19, had sex.
He claimed the girl did not say no and did not seem 'uncomfortable' with his presence in the room - so he decided to 'close the door and see what happens'.
His account of the night - six months after Miss Goody died from cervical cancer - came in taped police interviews played to the jury sitting at Snaresbrook Crown Court, in East London.
Earlier the jury of six men and six women had been told the young woman and three of her friends met Tweed at the Embassy Club, in Mayfair on September 4 last year.
Later they all went back to his house in Woodford Green, Essex.
It was there that they also met Davis, who was already at the house.
The woman claims that Tweed, a 22-year-old club promoter, forced himself on her in a bedroom while his friend held the door shut.
Davis, 26, allegedly told Tweed: 'Don't worry Jack, I've got the door. Do what you've got to do', before orally raping her himself.
But yesterday Davis insisted he would not force a woman to have sex.
He said he stood in the bedroom while Tweed and the woman had sex against the window.
'She didn't protest, she didn't say stop. She didn't say anything to suggest she didn't want it to happen. She didn't say anything at all.'
In an interview at Ilford police station the following day, Davis said that after one of the woman's friends enquired if she was okay, and then left he thought she was 'not uncomfortable with my position in the room.
He said: 'I thought I may as well close the door and see what happens I guess. I just got closer and closer. She didn't say anything.'
He said she tilted her head back and reached out her hand as he approached and then gave him oral sex.
Davis, who said he had only been friends with Tweed for about six months, admitted he and Tweed had shared a bed with two girls before.
Asked if Tweed pushed the teenager on to the bed, Davis said he never heard or saw her struggling.
'I know that if she was struggling at any point, I would have seen, heard - 10 times out of 10 I'd intervene,' he said.
'It was not that scenario. She was certainly not doing anything.
'There was absolutely no words of "stop", "no", "don't", "get off". She didn't push him.
'There was no struggle at all. 100 million per cent there was nothing.'
Davis said he would never force himself on a woman, adding: 'I could get hundreds of girls who knew me or I have been with who would tell you exactly the same thing.'
Tweed denies two counts of rape and Davis, of Chigwell, denies one count of rape.
The case continues.
