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RAF serviceman, 22, denies raping woman in Shrewsbury

An RAF serviceman accused of raping a woman he met through an online dating app said he did nothing to cause her any harm, despite a court being told that she suffered bruising and a bite mark.

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Lloyd Marshall, aged 22, is standing trial at Shrewsbury Crown Court this week accused of raping the 30-year-old woman at her Shrewsbury home.

The hearing was told the pair met through the dating app Tinder.

They had arranged to meet a few days after they had been in contact by text and phone. Detective Constable Sally Jones, based at Shrewsbury Police Station, read out evidence from Marshall's statement, taken days after the alleged encounter.

In his statement to police he said he stopped as soon as the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had told him to stop to take contraceptive precautions.

In his statement, he said: "Not once did she say no, she just said stop and I stopped straight away."

The court heard that days after they had met up, Marshall sent a text message to the woman, who replied asking why he was texting her.

In the reply she told him she needed to get herself checked over because she was covered in bruises caused by him, and that he had forced her to have sex with him.

Marshall said the allegations had made him feel "physically sick".

The court was told the woman claimed that Marshall had sex with her despite her wanting to stop because he had refused to use contraception.

Marshall, an RAF serviceman, of Crawshaw Avenue, Beverley, North Humberside, denies rape. At the time of the alleged assault in December, 2014, he was based at RAF Cosford.

The woman said that she had picked him up in her car at a Sainsbury's store and taken him to her home.

The trial continues.

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