A 22-year-old Scot has told a jury how she “froze” after waking up to find a man raping her at a party in Leven.
The former hotel worker said she thought she might have been dreaming when she woke several times to find Lee Patrick attacking her.
24-year-old Patrick, from Methil, denies raping the woman while she was asleep, falling in and out of sleep and intoxicated through consumption of alcohol and controlled drugs at an address on October 13, 2018.
Giving evidence from behind a screen at the High Court in Livingston, the alleged victim said she had gone to the party after a night out drinking with former workmates.
She admitted taking Ecstasy, before going to sleep in the living room.
Woke up as she was assaulted and raped
She said she first woke to feel hands on her waist.
Her shorts had been pulled down and she was being sexually assaulted.
She said: “I later learned that to be Lee Patrick.
“I felt frozen and unable to move.
“I tried to speak but couldn’t verbalise anything.
“I could open my mouth but couldn’t say anything.
“It felt like I had pins and needles all over my body and I was like a dead weight.”
The next time she woke up, she said, she was being raped.
She said: “Again I didn’t feel able to do anything.
“I couldn’t move and I couldn’t speak, I think perhaps due to shock and confusion.
“That time (I was awake for ) about four or five minutes.
She said he was extremely aggressive and causing her pain.
‘Surge or energy’ helped escape
She said she “drifted off” again and she was still raping her when she came round.
“At that point, after about a minute or so, I almost felt this surge of energy and I snapped back into consciousness and attempted to get him off me.
“I said something along the lines of ‘What the fuck is going on?’
“He was sitting on the floor and he didn’t have any underwear or trousers on.”
She said she could hear a man in an armchair in the corner of the room laughing.
On her way home that morning she sent a text to a university friend saying: “Just woke up to some actual creep trying to have sex with me. Cool!”
She explained: “I often try and make light of the situation so it was done in a sarcastic way alluding to the fact that it’s obviously not cool.”
About a week later she disclosed to her dance teacher that she had been raped after she started experiencing “non-epileptic disassociated seizures”.
She wrote a note saying: “He moved my legs off the sofa and kept going, He whispered something in my ear, that’s how I knew it was him.”
Iain Paterson, defending, put to her that Patrick’s position was that he had not touched her, hadn’t had sex with her and hadn’t done anything of a sexual nature.
He asked the witness: “Could that be the case?”
She replied: “No. I’m 100% secure that that’s what happened.”
The trial, before judge Simon Collins, continues.
