A WOMAN who said she was raped in a Swindon bed and breakfast while still mourning her murdered fiance has denied claims of a previous sexual relationship with her alleged attacker.

The young woman told Swindon Crown Court yesterday that in the early hours of Friday, June 5, 2009 she was raped by Vladimir Krsteski, 21.

Krsteski, of The Thatchers, Abbey Meads, acknowledges that the couple had sex but claims it was consensual and the culmination of a sexual relationship that lasted several months.

Krsteski has pleaded not guilty to one charge of rape.

At the start of a four-day trial the woman gave evidence via a video link.

She said that she had met Krsteski in 2008 via the social networking website Bebo. The pair had become friends, she said, and met occasionally but had never had a sexual relationship.

After several months of contact the pair lost touch, she said, during which time she became engaged to another man.

But the jury heard how, after her fiance was murdered, Krysteski contacted the woman to offer his condolences and the relationship was rekindled.

On June 5 he invited her to Swindon for a drink and drove out to pick her up. From the moment she got in the car he was fondling and groping her, she told the court. She claimed she repeatedly told him to stop but he insisted he was only joking.

When the couple arrived in Swindon Krsteski allegedly told her that instead of staying at a friend’s house they would be sleeping in a bed and breakfast on County Road.

At this point the woman said she asked to be taken home but Krsteski refused. As she had no money she was stranded in Swindon, she said.

The pair were joined by Krsteski’s friend, Ali Hassan, who agreed to stay with them at the bed and breakfast to keep the woman calm, she said.

During the evening the trio drank wine and took cocaine before falling asleep. After Mr Hassan left at around 5am the woman claims she woke to find Krsteski groping her.

She said: “He grabbed my leg and pulled me over. He was on top of my face. He grabbed my arm and held me down. Then he raped me again and again.”

She told the court how she phoned Mr Hassan, who came to pick her up and take her home.

In cross examination Jonathan Simpson, defending, painted a very different picture of the relationship.

He said the pair had been sexually intimate for some time before the incident and had regularly met for sex in Krsteski’s car. The woman strenuously denied any sexual contact.

Mr Simpson said that after the Mr Hassan left the room she invited Krsteski into her bed and they had consensual sex. The woman once again denied the claim, insisting it had been rape.

Mr Simpson claimed that the woman flew into a rage after the subject of her dead fiance was brought up and when Krsteski told her he did not want her to meet his parents. The woman once again denied the claims.

The trial continues.