A NURSE who raped a young patient in hospital was only caught after she read in the Oxford Mail how he later had sex with another woman, Reading Crown Court heard today.

The young woman realised the incident which led to Oliver Balicao being jailed in 2007 had similarities to the ordeal she had suffered three years earlier, Sam Mainds, prosecuting said.

She told her mother about being raped, but she didn’t believe her and the police were not told.

Today, Balicao went on trial for the second time for an alleged sexual encounter with a patient at the hospital where he worked.

A jury heard how Balicao took the then 17-year-old patient into a side room at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and raped her.

Police were finally alerted two years ago after Balicao, 36, admitted carrying out a sex attack on another patient.

In a video interview played to the court, the alleged victim said: “When my boyfriend took my mum home, that is when he took me into a room and told me to have sex with him.”

Balicao was a member of the Clinical Decision Unit, and is from Lerwick Croft, Bicester. He denies rape and sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.

The victim, who now has a child, was only interviewed by police in January 2008 after Balicao went before Oxford Crown Court for a sex attack on another patient.

Mr Mainds added: "In December 2007 this defendant was before Oxford Crown Court and he admitted that he had had sexual intercourse with a young patient at the hospital.

"This is an offence now if the person is under the age of 18. That was much broadcast on the television and local radio and as a result of that broadcast this victim saw it and said to her mum 'Don't you remember that I told you about it.'"

The case continues.