'I said no', rape victim tells court

An alleged rape victim told a father whose daughter was murdered in Thailand that she did not want to have sex with him, a court heard today.

Ian Horton, 56, denies raping the woman, who said she told him "no" when he had sex with her.

Giving evidence through a video link at Cardiff Crown Court, she was asked about the second of two occasions when they had sex.

Ieuan Bennett, prosecuting, said: "At what point did you say no to him?"

She said: "When he took off my clothes, I think. I didn't want to have sex."

Mr Bennett asked: "As far as you were concerned when you said that to him, did he realise you didn't want to have sexual intercourse with him?"

"Yes," she replied.

Asked why she did not go to the police after the incident, she said: "I did not think they would believe me and I did not know it was a crime."

The jury heard the woman later went to the police after speaking to a solicitor.

Horton's daughter Katherine, 21, was killed on New Year's Day 2006 while backpacking on the island of Koh Samui.

Fishermen Bualoi Posit and Wichai Somkhaoyai were sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment, for murdering and raping the psychology student.

Horton, of Lisvane, Cardiff, denies two counts of rape.