University graduate 'raped eight-out-of-ten-drunk City worker, 26, in his hotel room' after meeting her on all-day brandy and wine pub crawl with office colleagues

  • William Paton, 30, is accused of raping a City worker he met on a night out 
  • Pair seen on CCTV at the Holiday Inn in Whitechapel, where Paton was staying
  • The 26-year-old woman claims she woke up to find Paton having sex with her 

By Amie Gordon For Mailonline

Published: 09:46 EST, 4 October 2017 | Updated: 12:27 EST, 5 October 2017

William Paton arrives at Blackfriars Crown Court today accused of raping a City worker

William Paton arrives at Blackfriars Crown Court today accused of raping a City worker

A man has been accused of raping a young City worker in his hotel room after meeting her on an all-day drinking binge. 

The 26-year-old City worker told Blackfriars Crown Court she woke up to find William Paton, 30, having sex with her in his Holiday Inn room.

The court heard Glasgow University graduate Paton, 30, allegedly picked her up as she enjoyed an all-day brandy and wine celebration with office colleagues on March 4 last year.

Privately-educated Paton, who attended £12,000 a-year Hutcheson's Grammar School and the University of Strathclyde, claims the woman consented.

He had travelled down from his home in Newton Mearns, near Glasgow, to attend an event hosted by a City of London livery company and met the woman while out drinking afterwards.

'The next thing I remember was being rocked and seeing someone there, I freaked out,' she told the Blackfriars Crown Court jury.

'I did not know if it was real or not and I remember crying in the toilet,' she added. 'I scared myself that I could drink that much.'

She told the court she was 'eight out of ten' on a scale of total inebriation, having started on cranberry juice at noon and progressing to double brandy and coke, plus wine.

'I know what I get like when I start too early,' agreeing she was 'binge drinking' that day. 'I think a lot of people do at my age, I don't think I'm alone there.

'Before this happened and I was out I never wanted to go home. I just wanted to enjoy myself.'

William Paton (pictured) has denied raping a City worker he met on a night out

The 26-year-old City worker told Blackfriars Crown Court she woke up to find William Paton, 30, having sex with her in his Holiday Inn room

Pictured is the Dickens Inn in St. Katherine's Dock where the woman and her office colleagues continued drinking after their lunchtime celebration on March 4 last year

Pictured is the Dickens Inn in St. Katherine's Dock where the woman and her office colleagues continued drinking after their lunchtime celebration on March 4 last year

Prosecutor Jonathan Loades told the jury after the lunchtime celebration the woman continued drinking at The Dickens Inn in St. Katherine's Dock then met Paton at The Dirty Martini in Bishopsgate.

She told the jury she regrets not catching the train opposite the bar and returning home to her long-term boyfriend.

The pair continued partying at Whites strip club in Aldgate before going to Paton's Whitechapel hotel, where they were filmed on CCTV.

'Exiting the lift she nearly falls into the flower pot. It is the Crown's case she was very drunk at this point,' said Mr Loades.

'The next thing she remembers is being in her words, 'Rocked.'

'She felt herself rocking backwards and forwards as Mr Paton was having sex with her.

The Cityworker met Paton at The Dirty Martini in Bishopsgate. She told the jury she regrets not catching the train opposite the bar and returning home to her long-term boyfriend

The Cityworker met Paton at The Dirty Martini in Bishopsgate. She told the jury she regrets not catching the train opposite the bar and returning home to her long-term boyfriend

The pair continued partying at Whites strip club in Aldgate (pictured) before going to Paton's Whitechapel hotel, where they were filmed on CCTV entering the premises

The pair continued partying at Whites strip club in Aldgate (pictured) before going to Paton's Whitechapel hotel, where they were filmed on CCTV entering the premises

Prosecutor Jonathan Loades told the jury that the woman almost fell into a flower pot as she got out of the lift of the Holiday Inn Hotel in Whitechapel (pictured). 'It is the Crown's case she was very drunk at this point,' he told the court

Prosecutor Jonathan Loades told the jury that the woman almost fell into a flower pot as she got out of the lift of the Holiday Inn Hotel in Whitechapel (pictured). 'It is the Crown's case she was very drunk at this point,' he told the court

'She did not know how he got there or what was going on and had one leg of her tights and one of her boots off.

'She pushed him off and went downstairs and bumped into a stranger, who seeing her distress called the police.'

Paton was arrested and questioned in Scotland and DNA linked him with the woman.

He pleaded not guilty to one count of rape. 

Paton told the jury he had little recollection of the evening, but stressed: 'I would never, ever take advantage of a woman. There's absolutely no way that I would rape any woman.'

The mathematics grad, who works for his family's nationwide taxi insurance and maintenance company, said: 'She didn't wake up with me on top of her. We had consensual sex.'

Three days later he was arrested on the front driveway of his family's £400,000 house by four waiting police officers.

'When they said rape I took a few steps back and thought: 'There's something not right here. They've got the wrong guy.'

'In the journey in the police car I thought there must have been some mistake and was later told I'd been id'd forensically, but couldn't remember being with a girl.'

He later retraced his steps that night with his father in an attempt to jog his memory.

'The one thing I can remember is her getting out of bed and leaving quietly. She did not wake up having sex with me.'

Paton told the jury even though he had no recollection of being with the complainant there must have been consent because he is not a rapist. 

The trial continues. 

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