A man today denied raping a drunk 16-year-old three times.

Faris Jalal told Oxford Crown Court he had consensual sex with the teenager in his car in Cheney Lane, Headington, in March 2007.

The 40-year-old, of Southfield Park, East Oxford, denies raping the girl, now 17, in three different locations in Oxford.

He said: "We bumped into each other and we started talking.

"She was trying to sell a mobile to me. I had met her previously a month before in the Zodiac nightclub."

Jalal said he and the teenager drove around Oxford before they decided to have consensual sex.

He said: "She was in the front seat and we started talking, kissing and chatting. She did have a drink, she wasn't upset and she knew what she was doing."

Earlier in the trial, the jury heard the teenager had previously withdrawn another report of a rape saying the relationship was consensual.

Jalal said: "As far as I was concerned she led me on, she did it for a bit of attention so she could tell her friends.

"She made false allegations before. She reported a rape and made a false allegation."

During cross-examination, Neil Moore, prosecuting, said: "The reality was she was upset and very drunk.

"The reality is you preyed on this drunken young lady.

"You offered to take her somewhere safe, that is what you were talking about, and you took advantage of her, didn't you?"

Jalal said he had not.

The trial continues.