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Two friends filmed themselves raping a woman after she passed out drunk before sharing a “trophy photo” on Whatsapp, a court heard.

Liverpool man Artjom Nepryahin and pal Jesse Burgoine are accused of sending graphic pictures to a WhatsApp group called “The Gruesome Threesome”.

Nepryahin, 25, of Prestwood Road, West Derby , and Burgoine, 28, from Sandy, Bedforshire, jointly deny two rape charges.

In graphic footage played at Nottingham Crown Court, Burgoine appeared to be having sex with a young woman who had been out for the night with two friends in Nottingham.

Nepryahin allegedly took the woman’s pulse and filmed what was happening as the woman lay passed out on a sofa, the jury heard.

Prosecutor Tina Dempster said that after the 24-second video was taken, the men had taken a “trophy photo” of the woman’s bottom, and a photo of someone taking a photo of her bottom.

Miss Dempster said on either side of one of the photos were the two accused, who were both members of a WhatsApp group called “The Gruesome Threesome”.

She said: “That is a photo that not only did they take, they sent it to others,”

Jurors were told that the defendants “targeted” the victim, who had been in a bar in Nottingham city centre.

Miss Dempster said: “It’s quite clear, when you hear telephone evidence and the exchanges between them, that they see it as a joke to sleep with women. Mr Nepryahin kept score of the women he slept with.

“You might think, on hearing the evidence, the drunker the woman is, the easier it is to sleep with her. Mr Nepryahin tells someone the following morning: ‘It couldn’t have been easier if we tried’.”

The woman told police that she remembered the men had engaged in sexual activity with her when she came round in a flat, tried to push them off and then “played dead”.

When she thought the men had moved off her, she grabbed her clothing and left.

After both men were arrested, they told police it had been a consensual sexual encounter.

Proceeding.