A jury in the case of a barman accused of kidnapping and raping a 16-year-old Brighton girl at knifepoint will today start a third day of deliberations.
Stephen Potter, 35, allegedly forced the girl from a property in the town in the early hours one day last October and dragged her behind a block of flats.
He is accused of then tying her hands with her shoelaces and forcing himself on her, then walking her three miles to Hove Lagoon and raping her again.
The seven female and five male jurors at Lewes Crown Court began their deliberations on Monday afternoon.
Judge Richard Brown has told them they can deliver majority verdicts, on which at least ten are agreed.
Potter, of Olive Road, claims the girl consented to sex and denies two counts of rape and one of kidnap.
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