Telford doorman not guilty of rape
A doorman from Telford has been found not guilty of raping a 25-year-old woman he met two days earlier.
John Dumbuya, 38, of Brookside, was acquitted by a jury at Shrewsbury Crown Court yesterday.
He always maintained the woman had made a false claim after he called her "selfish".
The pair were having consensual sex for the second time when 25 minutes in she said she was tired and asked him to stop, the court heard.
"I got off her straight away and I said you're selfish," he told the jury when he took to the witness stand. "I was annoyed because I thought she's enjoyed herself and then she's had enough," he said.
Dumbuya, of Beaconsfield, admitted swearing at the woman and said he went home and a short time later police knocked on his door and accused him of rape.
The jury heard Dumbuya was born in Sierra Leone, West Africa and worked at a hotel in Gambia where he met his wife in 1999. They married in 2003 and he came to the UK the following year.
They had two children but divorced in 2009.
His current partner, with whom he has a five-year-old daughter, sat in court throughout the trial, which heard they had separated for a while in June 2012 before reconciling later.
It was during the split that the defendant met the complainant, when she was sat in a friend's car when he came to give Dumbuya a lift to Birmingham.
The pair got chatting and swapped Blackberry messenger pin numbers and met up again two days later. They had sex at Dumbuya's house, then in Overdale Road, Telford, and then later at the woman's house, also in Telford.
It was here that she claimed Dumbuya forced himself on her despite her telling him to stop.
But the jury sided with the defendant who said she made the claim after he become angry when she wanted to stop half way through.
"We were having sex like normal people. It was nice. Then she stops and says she is tired. I got off her straight away and I said you're selfish."
He said he left the woman's house and later messaged her to say sorry.
