A YOUNG woman who says she was sexually assaulted by a Worcester nightclub boss was asked if she had made it all up to get attention from her mum.

The woman claims Darren Pinches forced a bag of cocaine into her face in a storeroom in Bushwackers on New Year’s Day last year before sexually assaulting her, pulling her top down, kissing her chest and forcefully touching her private parts.

The trial continued yesterday at Warwick Crown Court with the complainant giving evidence behind a screen.

Michael Burrows QC, for Pinches, said: “Is it something you have made up to get attention?”

She replied: “No.” He asked her: “Is it something you have imagined because of the drink and drugs you had that night?” Again she replied ‘no.’

He also said the door to the room where she said she had been assaulted could not have been locked because there was ‘no door.’

But she insisted there was a door, to which Mr Burrows replied: “What are you suggesting, that someone has removed the door in the days in between?” She replied that she did not know.

Mr Burrows said that the hinges showed that, when there had been a door in place, it had opened into the room not out into the corridor as she had told police.

Mr Burrows argued that she could not therefore have kicked it open as she claimed. He also said if the assault had taken place when she suggested, at around 5.15am, there would have been no daylight from outside - as she had told officers - as sunrise was not for another three hours.

He asked her if she had taken cocaine before the alleged incident which had made her paranoid and asked her if a message she sent her friend thanking her for ‘sorting her out with ice’ was a reference to the class A drug.

Asked if she accepted sending the message she said she could not remember.

Two video clips of the complainant were also played to the jury showing her ‘joking around’ later on New Year’s Day after the alleged assault.

Mr Burrows also said the complainant had taken an overdose in December 2016. Mr Burrows said: “It wasn’t your intention to take your life was it? You had fallen out with your mother and wanted her attention didn’t you? You thought an overdose might make her notice you again?” “Yes” she said.

Mr Burrows also put it to her that she had lied to her mother about miscarriages and hospital appointments and the complainant acknowledged she had done so.

She also admitted she had lied to her mother about punching her friend, whom she said had shut her in a room with Pinches.

Mr Burrows said: “The story about Darren Pinches is something you have made up isn’t it? You weren’t assaulted by him as you say. You weren’t shut in a room with him.” “Yes I was” she said.

Earlier in the day the jury were played a video interview during which the woman broke down in tears and was offered a tissue by a female police officer as she described what she says Pinches did to her in the cluttered storeroom full of Halloween decorations in Bushwackers.

Pinches, 52, of Bromyard Road, Worcester denies administering a substance (cocaine) with intent to stupefy or overpower the complainant to enable him to engage in sexual activity and sexual assault against her on January 1 last year.

He further denies possession of a controlled drug of class A (cocaine) on January 13 last year, supplying cocaine between February 9 and 15, 2016 to another woman and offering to supply cocaine to a third woman between September 3 and 5, 2015.

The complainant in the sexual assault allegation said she had drunk around three double Malibu and cokes, two or three Jägerbomb shots and three glasses of champagne, describing herself as five out of 10 on a scale of drunkenness.

The woman described being led up the stairs in the dark by a friend to use another toilet because there was a queue at Bushwackers as the club closed.

Instead she said her friend, who she described as nine or 10 out of 10 on a scale of drunkenness, led her into a room where Pinches was ‘racking up’ lines of cocaine on the flat surface of some mixing equipment.

The woman said Pinches and then her friend snorted two to three lines of cocaine each.

The complainant said: “I gritted my teeth and said to her ‘don’t leave me.’ I had this really bad feeling.”

But she said her friend laughed in her face and left, closing the door behind her and left her alone with Pinches.

The woman said: “She must have been off her head. It was like a cackle.”

She said Pinches stood in front of the door. “I was scared. He’s a big guy. I have never seen him smile before, never.”

The complainant said she heard a noise behind her which she believed was the door being locked.

She told officers Pinches told her to take cocaine and she replied she did not want to.

She told officers: “He said do it now. He was really blunt like ‘you just don’t have a choice. I’m not asking you, I’m telling you’.”

The woman said Pinches ‘caught’ her pretending to snort the cocaine, pushing it back into the pile.

She said Pinches swore at her and pushed the bag containing the drug into her face, holding it over her nose with one hand and holding the back of her head with the other.

The woman told those interviewing her: “I couldn’t breathe.” She said she panicked and inhaled.

When she told him she was on her period she said Pinches said: “I don’t care.” She then said he ‘yanked’ her straps down, exposing her breasts and sexually assaulted her.

The trial continues.