A footballer raped a woman he met at a bus stop after a night out, a court heard.

Delando Smith, 29, a former Whyteleafe FC and Carshalton Athletic player, is alleged to have attacked the victim in his flat, leaving her with bruises and scratches over her body.

He approached the woman while she waited alone for a bus in Peckham after a night out clubbing in May last year, Croydon Crown Court heard today.

The footballer offered to give her a lift to her friend's house in Brixton but the pair ended up at his flat in Oval, the alleged victim told a jury today.

Mr Smith is alleged to have raped her while using his phone to try to record some of the encounter.

Giving evidence behind a screen today, the alleged victim was asked by prosecutor Teresa Hay about a visit to a sexual health clinic in the days after the alleged attack.

Using a body map drawn by a doctor at the clinic, Ms Hay asked the young woman about scratches and bruising on her buttocks, thighs and shoulders, including a 9cm scratch on her inner left thigh.

Asked when the injuries occurred, the victim said: "I believe it was from the incident... when I was raped."

Fighting back tears, she described to the jury sending text messages to her friend asking for help after being approached by Mr Smith.

She said: "I felt I needed someone to come and get me... to get away from him.

"I had no control of the situation."

But Carolina Guilloff, defending, challenged the victim's account and suggested she had in fact the sent the text messages before leaving the club.

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Ms Guilloff added: "If you don't remember sending the ‘help’ texts, you can't say, can you, whether or not you had even met the defendant by the time you sent them."

The lawyer noted the victim had laughed and said "here we go again" when Mr Smith, of Vassall Road, had pulled up at the bus stop and beeped his horn at her, before willingly getting into his car.

Asked to explain her reaction, the woman said: "As a female, as you probably know, people beep at you and chat you up."

Accepting that her memory of the night was "fragmented" after drinking and taking a line of MDMA, the woman said she did not remember having sex in Mr Smith's car, although did remember performing oral sex.

Later at the man's flat, she said she tried to "cover her face" when he began filming her on a mobile phone, before he told her that he would stop if she "blew him a kiss".

Referring to the woman's injuries, Ms Guillof said: "It may be that you hadn't noticed a bruise or a scratch on your body before you were given an examination by a doctor.”

Mr Smith, who appeared last season as an attacking midfielder for Brixton United football club, sat impassively in the dock as the woman gave her evidence.

Asked why she had not told the doctor at the sexual health clinic that she willingly climbed into Mr Smith's car, the woman said: "I felt like if he knew I got in the car, then it was my fault."

Struggling to speak through her tears, she added:"It took me a while to come to terms with the fact that I had put myself in a position that allowed me to get..."

When the defence lawyer suggested the victim felt "embarrassed" by what had happened, the victim replied: "I wasn't embarrassed, I just felt stupid."

Ms Guillof, who also made numerous references to MDMA as a "love drug," suggested to the woman that "this is a case of consenting to have sex and then regretting it, isn’t it?

The witness replied: "No.

“I can assure you I didn't want to have sex."

The trial continues.

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