A man wearing a Ku Klux Klan-style hood and armed with a knife was alleged in Court yesterday to have raped a 22-year-old woman in her bedroom 16 years ago.

Martin Done, 44, of Grange Grove, Riddlesden, Keighley, has denied raping the woman as she held off her snarling pet dog on the morning of May 19, 1989.

Done was arrested last year after a "hit" when his DNA sample taken in 1999 on an unrelated matter showed there was a one in a billion chance the attacker was not him, Leeds Crown Court heard.

The victim's statement, which was made just hours after the attack, was read out in her presence yesterday.

It revealed how the rapist threatened to kill her and her six-week-old baby if she resisted and how he carried out the act as she held off her snarling pet dog, Smudge, who had come into the bedroom.

The statement said that all she could think about as she was being raped was how much she loved her husband and "how much he meant to me".

The jury heard how the rapist entered her home through the back door which was open because of the good weather.

He was wearing a Ku Klux Klan-style hood with diamond-shaped eye holes and carrying a knife resembling a Stanley knife.

He put his arm over her mouth as she screamed and then told her to shut up or he would kill her baby.

At first he seemed nervous and agitated then ordered her upstairs, she said.

She recalled: "I thought he was going to kill me - it didn't enter my head he was going to rape me.

"I pleaded over and over again not to harm my baby."

She began sobbing because she realised she was going to be raped.

"All I could think of was how much I loved my husband and how much he meant to me.

"I thought 'What monster could do this to me?'"

The man ordered the woman to get on the bed where he raped her.

"Smudge was with me throughout the ordeal," she said. "She went for him.

"He said 'Get that dog away' and I held on to her collar. She was snapping and snarling as if she knew something was wrong."

Several times the man pulled at his mask to make sure it was covering his face but she managed to see his eyes which were dark with ginger coloured eyebrows.

He was wearing surgical bandages on both arms, a shirt and dark green denim jeans.

When the man left the room she armed herself with a kitchen carving knife fearing that he was still in the house and then telephoned her parents and the police.

Two weeks after the rape she and her husband sold the house.

Maryanne Younie, of the police's forensic unit at Wetherby, said it was DNA samples from Done, taken at the time of the rape, that revealed it was one in a billion chance the rapist was not Done.

But she agreed that if the probability took into account that a brother could have been involved it would be reduced to one in 24,000 and if it was one of five brothers, one in 6,000.