A police efit of the suspect that was issued after the alleged rape (Picture: CEN)

A failed asylum seeker has called a woman he is alleged to have raped in front of her boyfriend a ‘prostitute’.

Eric X, from Ghana, was in court on charges of aggravated rape and predatory blackmail.

It is alleged that he used a tree saw to slash open a tent where the couple were sleeping in a nature reserve near Stuttgart and demanded money shortly after midnight on April 2.

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They handed over €6 and a music box before he saw the 23-year-old woman. He shouted at her ‘Come you bitch. I want to fuck you’.

He then dragged her out of the tent, threatening her with the saw, preventing the boyfriend from being able to help her.

It is alleged that he then lay a blanket on the floor before raping the woman with the saw close by.

Eric X’s lawyer Martin Moersdorf ordered him to be silent, but he shouted in court: ‘Why should I remain silent, about a case where I don’t know anything about?’

A court has heard the horrific details of what happened the night the couple were targeted (Picture: CEN)

The court heard that CCTV showed he left an asylum shelter, where he has tried to set fire to his cell and has attacked guards, at 7.58pm and did not return until 3.06am.

He shouted: ‘This is not the truth. This is a trick of the court. A trick question.’

When DNA evidence found on the victim was presented to the court, again he shouted: ‘If the girl claims she has been raped, she must be a prostitute. All who help her in the lie are filthy people.’

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Lawyer Gudrun Roth, who represents the 23-year-old student, said that it is ‘always a slap in the face, if someone who has experienced such a thing is mocked even further.’

Both of the victims are currently receiving psychological care.

Eric X arrived in Europe after crossing the Mediterranean Libya. Before he arrived in Germany, he stayed in the Italian capital of Rome and the city of Salzburg in Austria.

A few years before moving to Europe, he claims that he killed his brother-in-law in a dispute about the inheritance of a family member in Ghana.

This, combined with his lack of education and dire future prospects, are the main reasons why he chose to migrate to Europe in 2014, according to the psychiatric report.

The psychiatrist found no mental illnesses, which means that Erik X can be held fully accountable for the rape, if found guilty.

Erik X was notified by the German authorities 10 days before the rape of the young woman that he would face deportation to Italy where he had originally entered the Schengen zone as his asylum application had been rejected.

On April 8, Erik X was recognised walking along River Rhine in the Bonn neighbourhood of Beuel, holding a stolen music box from the couples tent in his hand.

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He has been locked up in investigative custody ever since.

The trial is ongoing, with 10 more trial days planned until October 19.