ONE of the two men accused of raping a teenager in an alleyway outside a nightclub has told a crown court jury: "I'm not like that."

Craig Whitelaw denied behaving in a way that was out of the ordinary when he and friend Kristofer McLaren had a threesome with the brunette.

The 21-year-old spent most of yesterday in the witness box and told Teesside Crown Court that she kept taking turns kissing them.

He said the first time he noticed his accuser was when she was "all over" another friend in Amadeus in Northallerton, North Yorkshire.

The farm worker said she then started kissing pal McLaren, also 21, and then turned her attentions to him on August 9 last year.

"At first I was a bit like 'woah' because I didn't know her, but she kept kissing me so I kissed her back," he told the jury.

Asked by his barrister, Paul Cleasby, why she might be kissing him, he replied: "I thought she might be attracted to me, maybe."

Whitelaw denied that he and his friend led the complainant from the club, and said that she followed them as they went for a cigarette.

In the alley, she started kissing McLaren again, said Whitelaw, before she again kissed him and told them both to get out their penises.

Whitelaw, of Ivy Cottage, Sutton, and McLaren, of Rymer Way, Thirsk, both deny two charges of rape, while the former denies sexual assault.

They are said to have taken advantage of the teenager's drunkenness, and ignored her pleas to stop and to help her find her friends.

Whitelaw said she was "absolutely fine" and at no point did she indicate that she did not want to do what they were doing.

Asked by Mr Cleasby, what he would have done if the complainant had objected, he replied: "Of course I would have stopped, and went."

Prosecutor Paul Newcombe described Whitelaw's conflicting accounts in evidence and during two police interviews as "nonsense".

He said he had little sleep before his arrest, was struggling to deal with the affects of alcohol and "my head was all over the place".

When he told Mr Newcombe he was "not like that" the barrister replied: "Not now you're not, but you were then."

Mr Cleasby asked: "Looking back now, do you regret it?" Whitelaw said: "Yes. It led her to lie and for us to be here."

Mr Newcombe said: "The regret you express is the regret of a man who has been caught, not the regret of a man who is sorry."

The trial is expected to continue today when the defence case for McLaren is scheduled to begin.