Luke Lazarus and the young woman were captured by CCTV outside the Soho nightclub. Credit:Sky News

"This charge is an act of violence. It's a despicable act of violence if it is what it is said to be and you would need to be very, very drunk to be so disinhibited as to go from someone who is not normally violent or sexually oppressive to be so in this instant," Mr Boulten said.

"He was someone who was popular, he got on well with young women, better than most it seems, and their evidence about him suggest that he is not really the sort of person who would force himself upon someone even when he was sexually excited."

The court has heard that Mr Lazarus, now 25, approached the woman on the nightclub dance floor and told her he was linked to the club before taking her to the VIP area and introducing her to the DJ.

He then asked her if she wanted to go somewhere more private before they left the club together and had sex in a dark gravel laneway. Soon after, Mr Lazarus asked the woman to write her name in the notes section of his phone, where he also kept a list of his "conquests".