A TRAINEE mechanic on trial accused of conspiring to rape a drunk school teacher told the jury she called him 'good looking' and initiated a sex session with him on a park bench.

Wakar Akhtar , 21, a former pupil at Buttershaw Enterprise College, and co-defendant, Najeem Ul-Saeed, 31, both went into the witness box at Bradford Crown Court yesterday to protest their innocence to the charge.

Akhtar, a married man of Hudson Avenue, Canterbury, Bradford, said he could not believe he had been accused of rape.

"It has been awful. It is life-destroying," he said.

He told the jury his friend Ul-Saeed, of Beaumont Road, Girlington, Bradford, rang him after midnight on May 26 asking if he was free because there was a girl in a taxi who wanted to "chill out".

He texted his address because he was free at the time and had nothing to hide.

When the girl got out of a red cab, she had no trouble standing up and her speech was not slurred.

"She was okay, walking and talking fine and totally normal," Akhtar told the jury.

She said: "Wow. You're good looking. She held my hand and we started to walk. She was happy to walk with us. She was fine. She was perfect," he said.

He, the girl and his uncle, Azad Raja, 38, also of Hudson Avenue, went to Great Horton Park.

Akhtar said the short journey on foot was along a well lit road where he knew there were CCTV cameras.

Once in the park, the girl undid his trousers and initiated sex on a bench, while his uncle went to fetch cigarettes.

Akhtar then went to buy Coca Cola and chocolate for the girl, leaving her with Raja.

When he came back, the two were sitting on the bench together and he did not realise that his uncle had also had sex with her.

Ul-Saeed, who is married with four children, said he was working in Pontefract as a pizza chef that night.

Private hire driver, Tamseel Virk, 42, of Marten Road, Canterbury, Bradford, rang him to say he had a girl in his cab who wanted to "chill out".

Ul-Saeed said he was at work but the girl spoke to him on the phone, saying: "Ring your friends. I need to spend time with someone."

He called his close friend, Akhtar, and arranged for her to be dropped off outside his home.

All four men deny conspiracy to rape.

The trial continues.