A TEENAGE girl told today how she thought she would die during a late-night sex ordeal.

The 18-year-old wept as she described how disc jockey Richard Baker grabbed her after she was unable to get into her home in Brighton just before midnight on August 29 last year.

He pulled her down an alleyway and assaulted her after placing her coat over her face, she told the Old Bailey.

She said: "I was in shock. I did not actually recognise what was happening.

She told the court how she began talking to the man, explaining to the jury: "I wanted him to know I was a person. I was really scared. I thought I was going to die.

"He was kneeling over me. I had my coat over my face, I could not see. He kept saying he would kill me."

Baker, 34, from Bodmin, Cornwall, denies raping the girl during an alleged sexual rampage across South-East England between May and December last year.

Baker, who worked for a time as a disc jockey in Spain, admitted sexually assaulting the girl but denies raping her and three other women.

He denies four rapes, two indecent assaults, one attempted indecent assault and one affray. He admits four charges of indecent assault and one of assault.

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