The woman said she was having contractions (Archive picture: Getty)

A man has been cleared of raping his pregnant girlfriend while she was in labour.

He had been accused of attacking his partner while she was on all fours in pain from contractions, justifying it by saying he ‘felt horny’.

But the man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been found not guilty after a jury at Hull Crown Court took half an hour to return their verdict.

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Prosecutors had argued that the woman went into the advanced stages of labour around 11.30pm, but when her partner woke up he said seeing her on hands and knees trying to relieve the pain was turning him on.




Michael Greenhalgh told the court: ‘He saw her naked on all fours and said “I feel horny”, to which she replied “are you serious?”. The defendant then got behind her and started having sex with her.’

The case was heard at Hull Crown Court Picture: Google)

Despite her shouting for him to stop, he said the man ignored this and carried on.

After the alleged attack, prosecutors said he offered to run her a bath before she was taken to hospital to give birth four hours later.

The couple had been together for seven years at the time of the allegations.

Following the baby’s birth, the man’s partner went to stay with her mother because the heating at the couple’s property was broken. After returning home to him, though, she decided to report the alleged rape to her family and police.

Mr Greenhalgh said initial texts between the pair after their baby’s birth were of affection and excitement because of their child and trying to look to the future, but that the tone soon changed when she went back home.

‘Firstly, she was back in the bedroom where this happened, which is a stark and uncomfortable reminder to her,’ Mr Greenhalgh said.

‘And, he behaved in an inappropriate way with the new baby.

‘The child is crying and he wouldn’t let her pick the child up and refers to it as a “spoilt little sh*t”. It was at that point she decided she couldn’t forget what has happened.’

The man denied the pair had sex throughout the trial.