Friend held on to door while Jade Goody's widower Jack Tweed raped woman, court hears

THE widower of reality TV star Jade Goody allegedly raped a teenager while his friend held the bedroom door shut and told him: "Do what you've got to do."

Jack Tweed is accused of attacking the then 19-year-old after meeting her at a nightclub in London's West End on 4 September last year.

Once the victim was back at Tweed's east London home, the 22-year-old club promoter and his friend, Anthony Davis, raped her, Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London heard.

The victim was shy, sober and "made it plain to both defendants that she was not interested in them sexually", prosecutor Linda Strudwick said.

The student, now 20, yesterday described to the court how her body went in to "complete lockdown" during the alleged rape.

The young woman was "frozen with fear" as she was attacked by Tweed and Davis, who had been pestering her for sex, the court heard. Tweed and Davis, 26, both deny raping the victim.

The victim said she was "horrified" when Davis joined Tweed on the bed and they both raped her together. Giving evidence from behind a screen, the young woman said she had never been so scared in her life and was in "complete lockdown".

Asked by Ms Strudwick to describe what she meant, the victim said: "You just leave your body. You can't feel nothing (sic). You just close your eyes and you're not there."

The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she initially tried to nervously "laugh off" Tweed's advances as he kissed her neck and pushed her towards the window sill.

She also admitted kissing Tweed back at first, telling the jury of six men and six women she felt she had no choice. But she said Tweed became "more heavy-handed" and the situation changed when Davis stood inside the bedroom and told Tweed: "Don't worry Jack, I've got the door: do what you've got to do."

The young woman did not push Tweed off or tell him to stop because she was "frozen with fear", the court heard.

Tweed was interrupted as the victim's friends tried to get into the room, but Davis was holding the door, the court heard.

The victim said she walked towards the door, but was asked where she was going. "I said I wanted to leave," she said. But Tweed stopped her and pushed her on to the bed underneath him, which made her even "more scared", the court heard.

Asked why she told her friends, who were shouting through the door, that she was OK, she said: "Jack said to say, 'yes'. I didn't know what would have happened if I didn't. It might have got violent."

She was then raped by both Tweed and Davis at the same time, the court heard.

Earlier, the court was told the victim and her friends went to Tweed's house in Brandesbury Square, Repton Park, Woodford Green, east London, after a night out at the Embassy club in Mayfair. The alleged victim was shy and "made it plain to both defendants that she was not interested in them sexually", Ms Strudwick said.

Tweed married Big Brother star Goody, 27, shortly before she lost her battle against cervical cancer in March 2009.

Tweed denies two counts of rape while Davis denies one count of the same charge. Both defendants are on bail.

The trial continues.