A JURY in the trial of two men accused of raping a woman in Whitehaven has heard the second defendant deny any sex crime.

Terry Parry, 30, went into the witness box at Carlisle Crown Court yesterday to speak about an incident at the town’s St Nicholas Gardens.

Both Parry and another man, Stuart Milne, 37, have pleaded not guilty raping an 18-year-old woman.

Milne, who also denies a separate alleged sexual assault, has already told the court that his encounter with the woman was entirely consensual. On day six of the trial, Parry said that he had not done anything illegal with the alleged victim either.

Parry confirmed that he and Milne, both of Bow Fell Road, Whitehaven, met the woman outside the town’s Wetherspoons pub. They did not know her.

She asked for a cigarette, they chatted and she went with the two men as they visited a number of pubs.

Having left the last pub, he saw Milne and the woman walking ahead of him in the distance. The pair went into St Nicholas Gardens, and Parry said a short time later he also walked in through an archway.

“They were having sex,” he told the court.

After that ended, Parry said the woman made a sexual advance towards him to which he which he responded.

As Parry left the park, he saw Milne and the woman having sex again.

The trial continues.