A Saudi millionaire has been cleared of raping a teenager after claiming he might have
accidentally penetrated the 18-year-old when he tripped and fell on her.
Property developer Ehsan Abdulaziz, 46, was accused of forcing himself on the girl as she slept off a night of drinking on the sofa of his Mazda Vale flat.
He had already had sex with her 24-year-old friend and said his penis might have been poking
out of his underwear after that sexual encounter when he tripped on the 15-year-old.
The 18-year-old met Abdulaziz in the exclusive
Cirque le Soir nightclub in the West End on 7
August last year where she had been spending
the evening with her friend, who was known to
the businessman.
He invited them to join him at his £1,000-per-
night table and then offered them a ride home in
his Aston Martin.
The three went back to his apartment, where he
offered them designer Roberto Cavalli vodka
before taking the second girl into the bedroom for
sex.
The teenager claimed she woke in the early hours
with Abdulaziz on top of her forcing himself inside
her.
Abdulaziz said he had accidentally fallen on the
youngster as she tried to seduce him, and that
was how traces of his DNA came to be in her
vagina.
He said he had gone to wake her to offer her a T-
shirt to sleep in or a taxi ride home, but she had
pulled him on top of her and placed his hand
between her legs.
The jury acquitted Abdulaziz of one count of rape
after just 30 minutes of deliberations.
In his evidence, Abdulaziz demonstrated how the
complainant had put her hand behind his head to
pull her towards him, causing him to fall down.
"I'm fragile, I fell down but nothing ever
happened, between me and this girl nothing ever
happened," he insisted.
He said it was possible he had semen on his
hands after the sexual encounter with her friend.
Abdulaziz, of Nightingale Lodge, Admiral Walk,
Maida Vale, was cleared of one count of rape.
During the trial, Judge Martin Griffiths permitted
the rare step of allowing 20 minutes of
Abdulaziz's evidence to be heard in private.
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