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A girl reported having been raped after nine years of the incident as she found no support when she was eleven and raped (7 June 2012)
Date: 07/06/2012
A girl who was worried to go through a court case and decided not to go to the police because she was discouraged to see a victim of a EastEnder storyline not getting any support, eventually lodged a complaint years later it was claimed.
She claimed that Junior Hall 41, raped her after she called him gay, the Old Bailey heard yesterday.
After Hall sexually assaulted her he told her that he was not gay and that he liked it very much. He then tried to bribe her with a £20 note, it is alleged.
The alleged victim tried to tell her mother but felt she was not believed.
Prosecutor Mark Gadsden said she did feel that the matter should be reported to the police but she got influenced by a storyline I the programme Eastenders which made her decide against going to the police and the process of court case because she was not supported.
She reported the rape in 2010 and claimed the attack took place between June 2001 and June 2003 when she was aged eleven or twelve.
Mr Gadsen said she and Hall were playfighting together. She accused him of essentially being gay because he was not fighting hard enough and she was winning.
In response to that she was grabbed of her and put his hands down her tracksuit bottoms and then raped her even though she was too young to consent to sex by law it was claimed.
It was very painful for her and when it was over she went off and had a bath, said Mr Gadsden.
He then came up and offered her a £20 note, an attempt to bribe her, saying can she go to the shops and she could keep the change.
Mr Hall from Battersea, south London had denied even a scorch count of rape.
The trial is to continue.