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A DEAF woman, allegedly gang raped in a cemetery by four Polish men, denied yesterday she willingly had sex with them and encouraged them.
The 36-year-old used sign language to explain what happened to her after she followed a man from a bar in York because she thought he wanted to speak to her.
With the help of sign interpreters she told a jury over a video link at Leeds Crown Court that the man, who had spiky hair, took her arm and led her to St Martin's churchyard where he tried to kiss her.
She said she was confused about what was going on because he was gesticulating and saying things outside the pub but she could not understand.
She tried to push him away when he wanted to kiss her but he then took hold of her and pushed her over a tombstone, ripped down her trousers and underclothes and raped her.
It was then she saw other men approaching her and they joined in and also raped her.
Cezary Krasnopolski, 26, Marcin Legowski, 23 and Dominik Knoblauch, 21, all of Lincoln Street, Leeman Road, in York, and Janusz Rucinski, 23, formerly of Bishophill Road, York, each deny rape on November 13 last year.
Under cross-examination by David Hatton QC, defending Krasnopolski, she denied she had sex with the first man willingly in the churchyard.
"And when his three friends arrived looking for him you encouraged them to have sex with you also," he said.
"No, absolutely not," she replied. "I couldn't communicate with them how on earth could I tell them I wanted to have sex with them?"
Graham Hyland QC, defending Legowski, said when the first man kissed her on reaching the churchyard she had responded.
"No, no," said the witness. "I didn't want him to kiss me, that's when he turned me over. It was so dark I couldn't really see what was happening."
Mr Hyland suggested in the churchyard it was she who exposed her breasts, who performed oral sex on the first man before pulling down her own trousers and having sex with him.
"No, no," the woman said.
She said she could not tell which man was having sex with her at a particular time because her top had been pulled up so she could not see their faces. "They were just changing over."
"I was saying 'no' but there was just so many of them. It was awful."
Mr Hyland asked why when she later got in a taxi she had not written down to be taken to the police rather than home.
"I was in a dazed state I could barely see where my key was, the first thing I wanted to do was take off my clothes and climb into bed. I was embarrassed about what had happened to me, I didn't want to tell people the awful things that happened to me."
She said it was only later that morning she decided to tell someone who could understand her.
The trial continues.
I am SOOOOO SICK of people getting raped! That is so mean.
