A MAN accused of raping a teenager during a three-in-abed session has denied an allegation that he treated the girl as a plaything.

Craig Wayper, 27, told a jury at Teesside Crown Court yesterday that the 16-year-old “wanted it” and consented to everything that happened.

Mr Wayper took to the witness box yesterday and denied the student was too drunk to consent and that he and his friend took advantage of her.

He said the girl invited him into the bed before they started kissing and touching each other and that she invited him to take off her clothes.

After the pair had sex, Mr Wayper’s friend, Daniel Taylor, 22, came into the bedroom and joined in, the jury has heard. Taylor, of Deerness Estate, Tow Law, County Durham, denied a charge of rape but pleaded guilty to sexual assault on the first day of his trial.

Unemployed Mr Wayper, of Lydgate Avenue, in nearby Wolsingham, denies charges of rape and sexual assault.

The jury has heard that the three were found in a bed at the Wayper family home by his mother, Madeline, who “hit the roof”.

Earlier that night, the two men had turned up at the house after finding the teenager cold and wet in the street following a Halloween party last year.

Mrs Wayper gave the girl a towel, dry clothes and a hot drink before going to a friend’s house nearby, said Peter Makepeace, prosecuting.

She also got a bucket for the teenager to be sick in because she believed she was very drunk, the court was told.

Mr Wayper told the jury yesterday that she was only mildly drunk, but when she went upstairs for a lie down, she invited him to join her. He said the girl neither asked him to stop nor indicated she was unhappy either while they had sex or when Taylor joined them in the bed.

Under cross-examination, Mr Wayper denied that the girl was drunk and said his mother was mistaken about her state.

Mrs Wayper told police she was “disgusted and horrified that they had taken advantage of this girl”, but her son said: “She was asking for it.”

Mr Makepeace put it to Mr Wayper: “That 16-year-old kid was a plaything to you and Daniel Taylor wasn’t she?” He replied: “It wasn’t like that.”

The barrister said: “You moved her where you wanted to, to do what wanted and you heaped on her almost every conceivable humiliation on top of the rape.”

Mr Wayper replied: “Everything that happened was with consent.”

The case continues.