PIZZA restaurant worker Kawan Deylan raped a woman after she missed her connection at Swindon railway station, a court heard.

The 30-year-old met the stranded woman, who was trying to find a police station in the early hours of the morning, as she tried to make her way home to Stroud.

After offering to put her up for the night at his home on Manchester Road, Deylan, who listened to proceedings through a Kurdish translator, is said to have subjected her to a sex attack. And when he was spoken to by police he at first denied she had stayed the night with him, later admitting having consensual sex with her.

Robin Shellard, prosecuting, told a jury at Swindon Crown Court how the alleged victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, came to be in the town.

On the night of the alleged attack she had been to a relative's birthday party and had left it too late to get back to Stroud. Her train arrived in Swindon in the early hours of October 5 but too late to catch the last service home.

The jury was shown CCTV footage of the woman walking around the platform and concourse area.

Mr Shellard said she went out on to the street where she spoke to a cabbie and found the £30 she had on her was not enough to get to Stroud at that time of night.

The taxi driver gave her directions to the bus station but also told her to go to the nearest police station.

"As she was walking along the road looking for the police station she came across Mr Deylan," Mr Shellard said.

"According to her she asked him where the police station was. He told her it was too far but according to her he told her he would give her a place to stay for the night."

She wasn't afraid to go with him as he seemed concerned about her and helped her with her bags, he said.

At his flat he offered her some beer before leaving her in the bedroom and turning the light out as he left the room.

But soon after he returned and demanded she have sex with him, which, fearing he would rape her and kill her, she complied with. Deylan, who worked at Pizza Express in Old Town, was interviewed by police.

Deylan, formerly of Manchester Road, now living on Rodbourne Road, denies two counts of rape. The case continues.