A teenager yesterday told a court she was raped by two men after being separated from her friends during a night out drinking in Oxford.

Giving evidence at Oxford Crown Court, the 17-year-old said she was drunk when she met the men and they offered her a lift home.

Faris Jalal, of Southfield Park, East Oxford, denies three charges of rape.

The jury heard the teenager, who cannot be named, withdrew a report of rape a few months before the later alleged attack saying the relationship was consensual.

Earlier in the trial, Neil Moore, prosecuting, said one of the men was Jalal but the other had never been traced.

The teenager said she drank a bottle of vodka before heading into the city in March last year, when she met the two men, who started chatting to her.

She said: "They said 'Are you okay?'. I was basically crying."

The teenager told the court she went with the men to an alleyway — which the prosecution said was Oriel Street — where she was forced to perform a sex act on one of them.

She said they then drove her to Preachers Lane, in St Ebbe's, and said the pair both raped her.

She said she was then taken to an allotment, which the prosecution claim was in Rymers Lane, where one of them raped her again.

She said she was then dropped off near her home where her mother found her walking along the street in tears. During cross-examination, the teenager denied claims she was making the allegations up.

She said: "I can remember going to Preachers Lane but I do not remember stuff happening. I have blanked it out of my mind.

"One of them took my tights off and the other took my underwear off, then I do not know. That is all I remember.

Peter Du Feu, defending, said: "Only the driver went with you in the car. You drove around with that one man and you and he were chatting and kissing. At some point you got to a road in Headington where sex did take place."

The teenager denied the claims.

Of the earlier, withdrawn rape claim, she said: "I did not want to press charges or go to court about it because he had a wife and kids. It was pretty much the truth."

The trial continues.