Cop, 26, playing for the combined British Police rugby team raped a university student in his hotel room after meeting her in a nightclub, court hears

An officer playing for the combined forces British Police rugby team raped a university student in his hotel room after meeting her in a nightclub, a court heard today.

Jordan McLean, 26, a constable with Police Scotland, had flown down to play against Army Rugby Union in Aldershot and members of the team went out for a night in Guildford afterwards.

He met the University of Surrey student in the town’s Casino nightclub and after dancing and kissing, the pair got a cab to McLean’s room at a nearby Holiday Inn.

‘All the time I was saying: ‘No’. He could tell I was upset, but he carried on,’ the victim said as she alleged to have been left bleeding from the attack.

And just when she thought the nightmare was over he proceeded to rape her again, she added.  

McLean, of Silvertonhill Avenue, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire has pleaded not guilty to one count of rape and one count of assault by penetration in the early hours of January 26, 2023.

When he was arrested he told police: ‘There was no exchange of numbers and I considered it a one-night thing and she was fully consensual.’

He admitted the fling was behind the back of his then two-year ‘on and off’ girlfriend, telling the trial: ‘It is not something I am proud of doing, but we were not fully committed.’

Jordan McLean, 26, a constable playing for the combined forces British Police rugby team raped a university student in his hotel room after picking her up in a nightclub, a court heard today

The Croydon Crown Court jury watched a video-recorded interview the woman gave to Surrey Police in which she admitted meeting the six-foot three-tall cop at the club felt ‘exciting.’

‘We had a drink and we were kissing and dancing a bit,’ she told the officers, confirming she was happy to share a cab to the defendant’s hotel, arriving in the early hours.

‘He was quite persistent and he started to kiss my neck and I was moving away, saying: ‘I don’t want to do this.’

‘He was moving his hands down my body and he started to take my trousers down and my shoes, he took them off. I felt frozen.

‘He pulled his trousers off and his shirt and he forced himself forward on me,’ she told officers, saying the rape occurred on one of the two beds in the room.

‘All the time I was saying: ‘No’. He could tell I was upset, but he carried on.’

The woman said McLean touched her between the legs, without consent, before the rape. ‘By that point I could feel I was in pain.’

Afterwards she went to the room’s ensuite bathroom. ‘I noticed I was bleeding and I was crying and trying to sort myself out.’

The court heard she dressed herself, but was raped again.

‘He pulled my trousers back down and I just thought: ‘Lay there.’ I just did not feel in the mood, it was with someone I didn’t know.’

McLean denies her account and told the court: ‘At no stage did she give me any inclination, push me away or say no. She was still kissing me and kissing my neck.

‘At no point was I intentionally forcing her or holding her down and at no point did she say she did not want to be there or wanted to leave.’

The young woman was cross-examined in court, giving evidence from behind a screen and told the jury she had played netball that day and enjoyed pre-drinks at another student’s home before heading out.

‘A few spirits, not a lot really. Possibly wine, I’m not sure,’ she told the trial, explaining she went straight to the nightclub with friends, where she met McLean and agreed to return to his hotel.

‘It was spur of the moment. I did not have an intention as to what would happen. I did not expect I would have to do something I didn’t want to do.

‘I can’t recall exactly what I was thinking and it was only when I was in the room that I felt uncomfortable,’ she said.

The woman said McLean touched her between the legs, without consent, before the rape. ‘By that point I could feel I was in pain.’

McLean denies her account and told the court: ‘At no stage did she give me any inclination, push me away or say no. She was still kissing me and kissing my neck’

McLean first put his hand between her legs, she said. ‘It was happening fast and causing me pain and I did tell him to stop by telling him: ‘No.’

She was shown a photograph of a bruise to her arm and asked how she received it. ‘I think it was while I was being held down,’ dismissing a defence suggestion it could be a netball injury.

The jury were told she sent Snapchat messages to her friend from the room, which included: ‘I feel such a slag’; ‘I wanna kill myself’; ‘I wanna die’ and: ‘I will need a STD test and a morning-after pill.’

Earlier prosecutor Mr Ed Hand told the jury: ‘This trial concerns a young woman raped in a hotel room by a man she had only just met.

‘They started talking at the bar and were kissing and dancing with each other and he asked to go back to his Holiday Inn and she agreed.

‘At the hotel she said that she no longer wanted to stay and wanted to go back to the nightclub and this defendant said something like: ‘Why did you come back here then? What’s the point?’

‘He took down her trousers and placed his hand to her chest to hold her down and she tried to push him away and started crying, saying she did not want to have sex,’ continued Mr Hand.

‘He continued to push her head down more forcefully,’ added the prosecutor, telling the jurors the complainant was then raped.

‘She went to the bathroom and locked herself inside and got dressed, but the defendant got her back on the bed and raped her again.’

Afterwards, the student contacted her friends and was collected and later informed the police.

‘The police took photos of some bruises that she said were caused by this defendant,’ added the prosecutor.

‘The friend who drove her describes her as being drunk and upset.’

McLean gave a statement to police and said: ‘I deny the allegation of rape and sexual assault.’

He said the young woman helped him undress in the hotel room by removing his shirt.

‘At no point did she ask me to stop. It was all very friendly and convivial.’

The trial continues.