A woman burst into tears after she was accused of willingly going to a hotel with four footballers to spend the night with them.

The 21-year-old began crying in the dock under questioning by defence lawyers about how she had ended up in a hotel room in the Jury’s Inn Brighton with up to five players.

Defence lawyers claimed the woman had “exaggerated and fabricated” in an account of an attack she gave to police in July 2011 and said she had “pursued” three different Albion footballers in six months.

The victim was giving evidence on the fourth day of the trial of Albion players Lewis Dunk, George Barker and Anton Rodgers and former Seagulls defender Steve Cook at the Old Bailey yesterday on sexual assault and voyeurism charges.

In an intense morning of questioning from three defence lawyers, the victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the court she wanted to cut her lips off because they had been touched by Anton Rodgers.

She said she saw images on Rodgers’ phone of the four players performing sex acts around her sleeping body that “haunted her to this day” and were “ingrained” on her brain.

She said: “I would never have gone back with them willingly.

“What kind of girl would go back with those guys?

“That’s not the kind of girl I am.”

Brian O’Neill QC, representing Dunk, said the victim’s account in July 2011 contained ten lies.

He also claimed it was “convenient” and “coincidental”

that the victim only remembered flashbacks from the evening eight months later, once her mother had been told by Detective Constable Lindsay Valder-Davis there were difficulties investigating the case because she said she was unconscious throughout the incident.

Mr O’Neill said the victim had turned her attentions to the defendants because she had been snubbed by fellow Albion player Leon Redwood.

He said: “Having been rejected by Leon Redwood you threw yourself at his mates.

“You got into bed with two of his friends, Anton Rodgers and George Barker, and they weren’t interested either.”

Peter Lodder QC, representing Rodgers, said the victim had lied to miss work a month after the attack by telling her bosses that her drink had been spiked on a night out.

The trial continues.