A TEENAGER was raped by a man after she was barred from a city centre nightclub for being too young, a court heard.

Jurors were told that Glyn Teare, 18, led the 16-year-old away from a telephone box where she was trying to contact friends inside the Privilege club, in Sunderland, to a deserted side street and attacked her.

Newcastle Crown Court heard how the victim was distraught and dishevelled and bleeding from her injuries when she returned to the phone box to contact her father after the ordeal.

Teare was arrested after the girl saw him getting into a taxi, but he told police she consented to what had happened.

Tim Gittens, prosecuting, told the court how the girl and her friends had been out on February 25 when she met Teare in Olivers Bar, in Sunderland, earlier in the night.

After spending some time dancing with and kissing Teare, the girl was asked to leave when door staff queried her age.

The pair parted company and the girl later tried to get into the Privilege nightclub, but was refused entry.

Mr Gittens said she was approached by the defendant while she was in a telephone box and he led her down a side street and pushed her on to the ground.

The court heard how part of the girl's ordeal was captured on security camera after operators noticed the girl appeared to be being treated roughly.

A doctor who examined the girl after the attack said the injuries she suffered were likely to have been painful and unlikely to have been sustained during a consentual encounter.

Teare told police it was the girl who instigated what happened between them.

Teare, of Haverely Drive, Seaham, County Durham, denies three charges of rape.

The trial continues.