“I’VE been attacked three times from behind because people think I’m a dirty rapist,” a man accused of controlling behaviour and assault told a jury.

Tommy Gunn is on trial at Oxford Crown Court charged with several offences, including one where it is purported that he made a woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, take medicine for a non-existent STD.

The 34-year-old is charged with one count each of controlling and coercive behaviour, intentional non-fatal strangulation, false imprisonment, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, sexual assault and rape.

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Gunn denies the charges and states the woman made up the allegations after he broke things off with her.

He said: “She was calling me and texting me when I left but at the same time she didn’t tell me she was at the police station…and she didn’t police she was emailing me.”

A jury heard that Gunn told the woman to drop the charges, telling her the allegations ‘were serious’ but when she refused he decided not to see her again.

Gunn then broke down in the stand on Friday (February 9) after telling a jury he has been attacked in prison, where he has been remanded in custody, by inmates who think he’s a ‘dirty rapist’.

“I’ve been physically but I never sexually assault her or raped her,” he said.

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The jury were read an email from Gunn to the woman in which he apologised for his behaviour.

It read: “I’m so sorry about that nasty side of me. You don’t deserve to see that side. I’m trying to provide I can get rid of that nasty side of me and just be me.”

Speaking in the trial, Gunn said: “That’s true. I still feel that way now. I regret what I’ve done. I do apologise for the things I have done.

“I love the girl but she sends me mad. It’s when I’m made that I threaten violence.”

He said that he doesn’t deny apologising for his behaviour and admits he did ‘get in her face’ and ‘threaten her’.

“I felt disgusted with myself that I treated her like that,” he said. “I intimidated her…I got in her face.

“With things like that I do try [levelling] with people like, ‘This is what’s going on, I feel a certain way, can you stop it because I’ve had enough. [sic]

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“The way I react I’m not proud of.”

He added: “I loved her but she wasn’t helping me at points…some of the things she were doing was making me paranoid. It was like she was getting a kick out of see me like that.” [sic]

The trial of Gunn, of no fixed abode, continues.