Transgender woman 'RAPED girl of 15' in former life as a man

A transgender woman raped a teenage girl before she changed gender, a court has heard.

 Davina Ayrton is accused of pinning down a 15-year-old and starting to suffocate her in a drunken sex attack.
Ayrton, who is now 34, allegedly raped the teen in 2004. At the time, Ayrton was still a man and used the name David.

Jurors heard that Ayrton, from Fordingbridge, Hampshire, has learning difficulties.
His alleged victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, described the ordeal in a video interview played to Portsmouth Crown Court.

In the footage, she said: "He just lay on top of me, it must have been seconds but it felt like it was minutes. He just sat up as if it was nothing." She added that she couldn't breathe when Ayrton tried to kiss her.

"I'm sure there was a point I went to slap him but I couldn't move my arm.

"I said get off me. I said it three or four times. It was more his weight on me at that point.
"That's when he was kissing my face, slobbering on my face. I couldn't breathe."

The court also heard they had both been drinking alcohol and the victim said Ayrton held one of her arms while the other was trapped against the back of the sofa.

She said she had not wanted to tell people about the rape at the time, and initially refused to speak to police officers about it.

However, the court heard that the case came to the authorities' attentions again after Ayrton confessed to a care home worker in 2014.

Judge Ian Pearson told jurors that Ayrton has learning difficulties. He said: "At the time of this allegation in 2004 the defendant was a male with the name of David Ayrton."

Ayrton, who was 25 at the time of the alleged attack, pleaded not guilty to a single count of rape between October and November 2004.
The trial continues.