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An asylum seeker has denied repeatedly raping a 16-year-old after allegedly luring her into a city centre car park.
Mourad Iyad Marei Salloum, 20, is accused of carrying out the attack after randomly meeting the teenager just minutes earlier when she stopped to ask him and a friend for a cigarette.
Salloum, originally from Jordan, is on trial at Manchester Crown Court and denies three counts of rape and one of sexual assault.
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Salloum → see → assault
Giving evidence through an interpreter, he admitted meeting a girl on the night of February 28, this year, after travelling to the Piccadilly Gardens area of Manchester city centre to meet friends.
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he → give → friends
She asked one friend for a cigarette, Salloum said, before telling him she was 'very attracted' to his looks and personality.
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she → ask → looks
Salloum then claimed the girl, who told him she was almost 19, then 'hugged' and kissed him on the lips and he responded by kissing her on the neck.
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he → claim → neck
He alleges she then asked if she could 'go home' with him and his friend because she 'didn't have enough money to get home'.
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she → allege → money
But they refused, telling her they were staying at a 'Home Office hotel'.
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they → refuse → hotel
Manchester Crown Court (pictured) where 20-year-old Mourad Iyad Marei Salloum and denies three counts of rape and one of sexual assault
The girl had also asked for £20 for taxi home, he said.
Salloum told the jury he eventually left the girl and later travelled to the Rusholme part of the city and he denied going to any car park.
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he → picture → park
Asked by Barry Grennan, defending, if he'd raped her, he replied: 'No, never.'
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he → ask → her
The jury was told that DNA found on the 'vulnerable' teenager's neck and jogging bottoms is 'one billion times more likely' to belong to him rather than an unknown male.
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DNA → tell → male
They previously heard how the girl had gone into the city centre that evening to meet friends.
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girl → hear → friends
She became separated from them and felt 'really drunk' after drinking four Buzzballz drinks.
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She → become → drinks
As she walked near Piccadilly Gardens, she recalled meeting two men, one of them allegedly Salloum, and asking them for a cigarette.
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one → walk → cigarette
She was handed one but when she asked for a light she was told they would need to fetch a lighter from a nearby car park.
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they → hand → park
CCTV allegedly shows the teenager following the two men to the car park, where she was allegedly raped multiple times.
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she → show → park
The jury heard how the attack stopped only when the defendant's friend interrupted him before asking: 'When is it my turn?'
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it → hear → him
The teenager claims her attacker kissed her twice - first on her mouth and then on her neck - and the second kiss was with such force it caused a 'love-bite', enabling DNA evidence to be gathered.
The prosecution claim attempts were made to get the teenager to go to a nearby hotel, but she was able to flee and speak to passers-by before alerting police.
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she → claim → police
Salloum has denied that CCTV images show him entering the car park, claiming it is a different man in the footage.
He also disputes that the teenager appears in the footage.
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teenager → deny → footage
The trial continues.
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trial → continue → ?
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