‘She was very forward with me. I didn’t force myself on her’

The fourth week of the Belfast rugby rape trial saw the recordings of police interviews with two of the accused played in court

Paddy Jackson: answered a detailed series of questions at Musgrave police station. Pacemaker
Stuart Olding: said he had gone up to sleep in Jackson’s room and found him in there kissing the alleged victim. Pacemaker

‘I didn’t force myself on her,” Ireland rugby international Paddy Jackson told police after he was arrested on suspicion of raping a young woman at a party in his house. “She didn’t have to stay. She could have left if she wanted to, but she didn’t.”

Last Friday, as week four ...