A MAN accused of raping a student says noises she made while they were "wrestling" over a phone in a hotel room were misinterpreted by another guest.

Qasim Amin denies raping the student in a hotel room on January 2, and said evidence given by the guest, that he heard a distressed woman shouting "get off" from their room, related to the scuffle over the phone.

Amin, who turned 20 yesterday, gave evidence at his trial in Bradford Crown Court yesterday morning. He denied that he had raped the 19-year-old student, who he had been in a relationship with, in a Bradford guest house.

He claims the sex was consensual, and that he only realised something was amiss when the woman said "you raped me" to him later in the day while they were walking to a shop.

And he told the jury that since he had been accused of rape, the woman had sent him Snapchat messages, including a photo of her in her underwear, and has met up with him on six occasions.

The court was previously told that the woman had human bites on her face and body when she reported the rape to police. She said she had arranged to meet him to end the relationship.

When asked if he had seen any bite marks on the woman, Amin said she was wearing a long sleeve top while they had sex.

The jury heard that he had phoned the hotel the day of the alleged rape asking if they had any CCTV cameras fixed on the hotel drive way. When asked why he had done this, he said he hoped any footage would show the woman had gone into the hotel willingly.

He said she was not crying while at the hotel as some witness had claimed, but that the pair had argued, with her accusing him of cheating on her and wanting to see his phone to check if he had been calling other women.

Amin, of Horton Grange Road, Lidget Green, said the pair would meet in the hotel to have sex. Geraldine Kelly, defending, asked if he had ever been violent towards her, or threatened her. He replied "no, never."

He said the only time he had been violent around her was when he headbutted a man for hugging her in Centenary Square.

When asked about what happened on the day he was accused of rape, he said: "We were wrestling about on the bed over the phone. She was going through my phone to see if I'd been talking to any other girls. I was trying to look at her phone. It lasted a few minutes, then I put the phone back down, we started talking and ended up having sex."

Geraldine Kelly, defending, said: "Was there anything in her behaviour that told you she wasn't consenting?"

Amin replied: "No, it was normal."

After the sex the pair got into an argument after he said he had been chatting to other girls "to wind her up."

The trial continues.