Two professional British soccer players were accused in court Wednesday of raping a teenage woman in a hotel bedroom as other men looked on through a window and one of them filmed what was happening.
Sheffield United striker Ched Evans and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald allegedly attacked the victim who was "very drunk indeed" and "in no fit state" to consent to sex.
The players are on trial at Caernarfon Crown Court charged with raping the woman in the Premier Inn, at Rhuddlan, near Rhyl, in May last year.
Prosecutor John Philpotts said Evans had booked a room "with the main or sole purpose of procuring a girl, or girls, later that night."
He said both players were "on the lookout for any girl who was ... suitable" and the alleged victim "literally stumbled across their path" after McDonald had seen her falling over in a kebab shop and escorted her in a taxi to the hotel.
She ended up in a room with the two soccer players, the court heard.
The jury was told that hotel receptionist Gary Burrough was aware of two other males waiting outside the hotel and went to investigate.
"They were at the window of room 14 watching, as it transpired, what these defendants were doing to that girl," Philpotts said.
"Mr Burrough went to check what was happening in room 14. It was not difficult to guess. He heard the sound of a female squealing and groaning."
Evans and McDonald, both aged 23, admit having sex with the woman but deny raping her.
The trial is continuing.
