A CHRISTMAS reveller telephoned international football star Obafemi Martins to tell him she had been raped in her sleep at a house party, a court heard.

During the frantic and tearful early morning call, the Newcastle United and Nigeria striker persuaded the young woman to report what had happened to the police.

Teesside Crown Court heard that she knew the £10m player from socialising in the same circles, and rang him after failing to reach any of her female friends.

The woman says she fled from the house in County Durham after waking from a drunken sleep to find Lee Tobin in the same bed and realised what he was doing.

A video interview with police was played to the jury yesterday, during which the woman says she was frightened when it dawned on her what had happened.

She told the officer that she woke to find someone having sex with her, but was in such a state of shock and disbelief that she momentarily pretended to be asleep.

After coming to her senses, the woman jumped from the bed, got her clothes together and fled her friend’s house before locking herself in her car, the court heard.

She told the jury of eight women and four men that she called four friends but got no answer, left a voicemail message with one, before ringing Mr Martins.

“I told him someone had forced themselves on me,” she said in the recorded interview.

“He said, ‘Go home and call the police’. He said I had to call the police.”

The distraught woman said she later rang her parents and they travelled to collect her and took her home before they rang the police, the court heard yesterday.

The jury was told that Mr Tobin and the woman met earlier at a Durham City nightspot where they shared the cost of a £50 bottle of champagne.

He asked for her telephone number, and although she said she did not find Mr Tobin attractive, she gave him her number.

Mr Tobin’s barrister, Thomas Moran, suggested that back at the house, his client asked the woman if it was okay for him to get into bed with her, and she said it was.

She denied the assertion and a suggestion that she may have been half asleep and dreaming that she was having sex which gave Mr Tobin the impression she was consenting.

Mr Tobin, 23, of Station Avenue, Brandon, County Durham, denies raping the woman on December 28 last year, and the trial continues today.