The jury in the trial of an Ipswich man accused of trying to rape a woman and blackmailing has been shown video footage of her going to his bedroom and climbing on top of him and cuddling him in bed.

The footage, which was taken without the alleged victim’s knowledge by a camera in a ceiling light, showed her stroking Shahin Rahman’s hair, tickling his ear and putting her arm round him while he was lying on his back in bed.

After being shown the footage by Rahman’s barrister, Steven Dyble the woman accepted she had gone to his room and locked the door before getting into bed with him.

However, she denied having a relationship with him and claimed she had wanted him to make a telephone call for her and he had said he would do it for if she went to his room.

She accepted that at no point in the video footage had Rahman threatened her.

“You got into his bed and pulled the covers up. There was small talk between you. You cuddled him and put your arm round him in bed,” said Mr Dyble to which the alleged victim replied: “I wasn’t holding him all the time.”

She accepted she hadn’t told police about voluntary visits she had made to Rahman’s accommodation and claimed he had put mental pressure on her.

Rahman, of St Helen’s Street, is on trial at Ipswich Crown Court having denied three offences of attempted rape, two offences of sexual assault, putting a person in fear of violence by harassment and blackmail by making an unwarranted demand for sexual contact from the alleged victim between July last year and March this year.

 It is alleged that before trying to rape her, Rahman said: "You’ve got nowhere else to go. You really should do what I want."

It is alleged he chased her around her room until he caught her before sexually assaulting her.

The woman has claimed she was terrified and screamed for help after Rahman went to her accommodation and stripped her before trying to have sex with her.

The trial continues.