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A transgender woman has gone on trial accused of raping a teenage girl when she was a man.

Davina Ayrton, 34, was aged about 25 and known as David at the time of the alleged assault on the 15-year-old, a jury was told.

During the opening of the case at Portsmouth Crown Court, jurors watched a clip of a police interview with the alleged victim.

She said she attempted to fight Ayrton off during the alleged attack in winter 2004.

The alleged victim, who can't be named for legal reasons, said: "I know it was over quickly but it felt like it was forever.

"He just lay on top of me, it must have been seconds but it felt like it was minutes. He just sat up as if it was nothing."

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The alleged victim said she could not move one arm as it was against the back of a sofa and Ayrton held the other.

She said she "couldn't breathe" when he went to kiss her.

"I'm sure there was a point I went to slap him but I couldn't move my arm," she said in the police interview.

The woman added: "I said get off me. I said it three or four times. It was more his weight on me at that point.

"That's when he was kissing my face, slobbering on my face. I couldn't breathe."

She said Ayrton sat down before picking up something off the floor and left.

Ayrton had medium-length greasy brown hair at the time, she added.

The court heard they had both been drinking alcohol.

After the alleged rape, the woman said she did not want to move and told few people about what had happened.

The rape allegation was reported to police around the time of the incident but the alleged victim did not want to speak to them, the court heard.

Chris Stopa, prosecuting, said Ayrton allegedly told a worker at her care home in 2014 that she had raped someone in the past.

Ayrton said "that she had done something that she shouldn't have done, that she raped somebody," Mr Stopa told the court.

Police were called in and they contacted the alleged victim again.

Addressing the jury, judge Ian Pearson said Ayrton has learning difficulties.

He added: "At the time of this allegation in 2004 the defendant was a male with the name of David Ayrton."

Ayrton was sat with a support worker in the glass-panelled dock throughout the opening of the trial.

Ayrton, of South Gorley, Fordingbridge, denies one charge of rape between October and November 2004.