A BRADFORD rape suspect who told his alleged victim and police investigators he was a professional football was really a part time barber's shop worker, a jury was told.

Nathan Campbell, aged 24, of Great Horton, admitted lying about his career when he gave evidence at Doncaster Crown Court today, where he is accused of three charges of rape and another of attempting to pervert the course of justice over an alleged attack on a woman in a Leeds hotel.

Former Leeds United youth player Simon Lenighan is on trial for similar charges and both men deny the offences.

Giving evidence, Campbell accepted he had told the woman involved he "played ball" and had made the same claim to others including police. The jury has heard previously he claimed to earn £2,000 a week.

The woman involved told Campbell, who she had not met before the incident, and Lenighan she could remember nothing of it and had asked for their help to explain what happened in the days afterwards.

Campbell told her they had been involved in a sexual act, but did not go into further detail because she became embarrassed.

He said he told her everything that took place that night up until the sex act took place, saying "At that point she was embarrassed so at that point I stopped and changed the subject.

"I didn't want to rub her nose in it if the girl is embarrassed," he said.

Campbell said the woman had consensual sex with both men.

"She was an active and willing participant," he said.

Campbell accepted he had already pleaded guilty to sexual assault as a result of a video he recorded on his mobile telephone later, while the woman was asleep.

He agreed that she had been touched sexually when he did not have her consent but insisted the video was made after consensual sex had taken place.

"At the time it was a laugh. I thought it was funny. I deeply regret recording the video, it was childish," he said.

Under cross examination he admitted taking a photograph, which he later deleted, after the video was recorded, and told the jury it had been a "trophy" from "the first and last threesome I have ever had in my life".

The woman had an iPhone which was left in her handbag when Campbell and Lenighan left her in the room.

It was found to be missing after Campbell had returned to the room and was found to have been passed into the possession of a company.

Campbell denied taking it and said he returned to the room to find a missing ear-ring.

The trial continues.

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