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Date Posted: 11:57:26 04/30/02 Tue
Author: trevor garnerville
Subject: Soldier denies rape charge involving student

Soldier denies rape charge involving student

Publication Date: 30 April 2002
Belfast telegraph

AN ARMY piper who denies raping a student in the back of his car has told a jury: "She only showed signs of pleasure."

Lance Corporal Robert Lyttle (26), from Bangor, is accused of giving the 21-year-old girl "a stupefying substance" in an Edinburgh night club before driving her away.

The girl - then living in the city but now studying in Glasgow - has told the trial she squealed in pain as Lyttle made her have sex. She said he used such force she thought her head would go through the window of the car.

Yesterday Lyttle gave his version of events, after meeting the student at the bar of the Subway nightclub in Edinburgh's Lothian Road.

He said she picked up his bottle of alcopop and drank "erotically", while looking him in the eyes.

As they drove away, the student - in the back seat of his car - slipped off her shoes and caressed his cheeks with her bare feet.

In a secluded spot near Redford Barracks she invited him into the back seat of the car and was a willing partner in all that followed.

Lyttle, who had been attending a piping course at the barracks since the previous September, said the girl locked him out of the car when he stepped out to get dressed afterwards.

But she opened the door when he warned he might have to smash a window and she could be showered with broken glass.

She then gave him directions as he drove her home - but her mood changed because she wanted to stay with him, he claimed.

"She was quite angry with me. She seemed upset, not happy, in the sense that I would not let her sleep with me," he told the High Court in Edinburgh.

Lyttle of Lismore Avenue, Bangor, denies raping the woman in the early hours of February 16 last year.

The charge alleges that he "administered to her a stupefying substance without her knowledge".

Lyttle is then accused of forcibly stripping the woman before raping her, and making her commit other indecent acts.

Experts have clashed during the trial about whether the girl's behaviour, captured on security cameras inside and outside the club, was consistent with being drugged or simply drunk.

At hearing.

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