‘Rapist’ prison officer, 61, who took ‘drunk’ woman home and attacked her after a night out said ‘Oh no, I’m in trouble now’ when he was stopped by her friend, court hears
- Glen Coleman escorted the ‘extremely drunk’ woman home after night in Cardiff
- The prison officer claims their sex was consensual but his accuser denies this
A prison officer who raped an ‘extremely drunk’ young woman after escorting her home said ‘I’m in trouble now’ when he was caught in bed with her, a court heard.
Glen Coleman, 61, allegedly took his victim home in a taxi before stripping her and raping her while she was too drunk to fight back.
A jury heard Coleman – a guard at 1,600-inmate Parc Prison in Bridgend, South Wales – offered to help the woman in her twenties during a night out Cardiff, Wales. He later claimed she consented to sex and denies raping her.
But the woman refutes this and said the defendant was ‘old enough’ to be her grandfather and that she was so drunk she ‘wasn’t strong enough’ to stop him.
The woman later told police: ‘I wanted it to stop, but I couldn’t. I wasn’t strong enough to stop it. My body didn’t do anything and I wanted it to stop.’
Glen Coleman, 61, allegedly took his victim home in a taxi before stripping her and raping her while she was too drunk to fight back (pictured arriving at Newport Crown Court, Wales)
Prosecutor Roger Griffiths told jurors at Newport Crown Court: ‘He came with her in a taxi to her accommodation, stripped her naked and raped her in bed.’
Mr Griffiths said the victim had ‘a great deal to drink’ and was described by those with her on the night as ‘drunk and unsteady on her feet’.
The court heard she was sick on another person in a pub – and Coleman offered to take her back to the accommodation in nearby Pontcanna, Cardiff.
But she said she ‘couldn’t stop being sick, it was like water’. Mr Griffiths said Coleman ‘took advantage of the very drunk woman’.
He said: ‘He had non consensual sexual activity with her. She was so drunk she could not have consented to what had gone on that night and the defendant took advantage of that situation to have sex with her.’
The court heard Coleman stripped himself and his victim’s clothes before getting into bed with her and rubbed her back while saying ‘Are you ok? Are you ok?’.
The jury heard he sexually assaulted the victim before raping her. She also said Coleman was putting his hands in her mouth throughout the alleged assault in July 2021.
One of the victim’s friends later burst in on them and the defendant is accused of saying said: ‘Oh no, I’m in trouble now.’
Alleged rapist Coleman (pictured) is a guard at 1,600-inmate Parc Prison in Bridgend, South Wales. Jurors heard when friends of the woman caught him in bed with her, he said: ‘Oh no, I’m in trouble now’
The friends began screaming at him and police were called.
Coleman told police what had gone on was consensual. But his accuser denied agreeing to sex and told police: ‘He is old enough to be my bampi’.
Mr Griffiths said: ‘Our case is she was simply too drunk to give any meaningful consent to the defendant and her condition would have been obvious to him.’
Coleman, of Hendy, near Pontarddulais in Swansea, pleaded not guilty to rape, sexual assault by penetration and sexual assault.
The trial continues.
