Waleed Alharbi is on trial at Winchester Crown Court accused of raping the woman in his halls of residence in Portsmouth
A Saudi Arabian student raped an intoxicated woman at his university halls after helping to carry her home from a nightclub, a court has been told. Waleed Alharbi, 26, faces charges of rape and attempted rape at Winchester Crown Court relating to an incident involving a woman in her 30s at his student digs in Greetham Street, Portsmouth, Hampshire, during the early hours of June 28 2025.
Prosecutor Mike Mason told jurors the alleged victim had visited the Astoria nightclub with a friend and became heavily intoxicated whilst on the dance floor.
He explained that security staff had at one stage instructed her to sit down due to appearing dehydrated. When she resumed dancing, the woman was approached by Alharbi and another male.
Mr Mason informed the court: “The defendant was very drunk and he lifted (the complainant) up and placed her up against the wall and was kissing her.
“He took her outside and he carried her for some time and then she walked with him to his apartment; this is student accommodation. She needed his support to walk, she was very drunk.”
Mr Mason stated that both the complainant’s and defendant’s friends had also travelled to the flat. Once inside, Alharbi banged his head and the two friends left to buy a plaster for the cut, the court heard.
Mr Mason said the defendant then “began touching her inappropriately and trying to take her dress off” before he started biting her, causing her to scream out in pain. The defendant allegedly “dragged” the complainant into his bedroom and “she couldn’t get out”, according to the prosecutor.
The two friends were outside the room and could not enter because a key card was needed. Mr Mason stated: “The defendant pushed (the complainant) on to the bed and he put his hand on to her mouth and tried to take her clothes off.”
He said the complainant went into the bathroom and, as Alharbi followed, she said to him: “Do not come in” and “I want to go home”.
He told the court Alharbi pushed the complainant down in the shower area and turned it on before he attempted to rape her. The woman was “crying and screaming”, he added.
The prosecutor said the complainant believed she banged her head and passed out but woke to find the defendant raping her on his bed. She attempted to resist and told him: “No, no, do not do this.”
Mr Mason said that afterwards the defendant accompanied the woman out of the apartment but she was so weak she had to sit down in the lift.
He said the other man was also present and they rode off on a scooter, leaving the complainant outside the building “sitting on the floor crying”.
Mr Mason said DNA evidence linked the defendant to sperm found in the complainant’s vagina. He added Alharbi denied the alleged attempted rape in the bathroom had happened, and claimed the sex in the bedroom was consensual.
The trial continues.