Transgender woman Davina Ayrton allegedly raped a 15-year-old girl before changing sex from male to female

A transgender woman allegedly raped a 15-year-old girl before changing sex from male to female.

Davina Ayrton, now 34, is accused of raping the teenager in 2004, when she was known as David.

The alleged victim, who had run away from home at the time, said the alleged attack 'was over quickly but felt like it was forever'.

She said that Ayrton, aged around 25 at the time, acted as if nothing had happened.

In a police interview which was played to Portsmouth Crown Court, the alleged victim, who is now in her 20s, said: ‘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.’

The jury was told how the alleged incident happened in a garage in Portsmouth, containing a sofa and two chairs, where the 'frequent runaway' would stay when hiding from her family.

The woman claims she was raped while a friend and her boyfriend were asleep inside the garage.

In the interview, the alleged victim described how she could not fight off the attack because one arm was trapped against the back of the sofa.

Ayrton, who the court heard had medium-length greasy brown hair at the time, allegedly held down the other.

The alleged victim said she ‘couldn’t breathe’ when Ayrton 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 on the video.

She 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.’

The alleged victim also told the court that she had shouted and sworn at the defendant in a bid to make him stop, but the two friends had not woken up.

The alleged victim said Ayrton then sat down, picked something off the floor and left. Both had been drinking, but the woman said she had a clear recollection of the events.

She added: 'I am fully aware of what happened in that garage.'

Jurors heard how the rape allegation was reported to police around the time of the alleged incident but that the teenager did not want to make a statement because she was 'anti-police'.

The court was told how it was re-investigated in 2014 when Ayrton told a worker at the care home where she lives about the alleged attack.

Prosecutor Chris Stopa said ‘that she had done something that she shouldn’t have done, that she raped somebody’.

Ayrton (pictured), now 34, who has learning difficulties, is accused of raping the teenager in 2004, when she was known as David

Giving evidence, the friend also told the court that the alleged victim was a 'vulnerable' girl at the time.

She said that she had been awoken by the alleged victim, who asked her and her boyfriend to 'get him out' - referring to the alleged attacker.

She said: 'She had woken me up, screaming and crying and asking for help.'

She said her boyfriend then 'ejected' Ayrton, whom they had met for the first time that day, from the garage.

Ayrton, of South Gorley, Fordingbridge, denies one charge of rape between October and November 2004. The trial at Portsmouth Crown Court (pictured) continues

Addressing the jury, judge Ian Pearson said Ayrton, who sat with a support worker in the dock, has learning difficulties.

He said: ‘At the time of this allegation in 2004 the defendant was a male with the name of David Ayrton.’

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