A serving Metropolitan Police officer from Bucks accused of raping a woman “disregarded” her limits after being told to stop several times, a court has heard.

James Geoghegan, 27, from Aylesbury, is accused of raping the woman on December 12, 2018.

On Monday, jurors at Chelmsford Crown Court were told the victim returned to her home in Loughton, Essex, with Geoghegan at around 3am after they had been drinking, the court heard.

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Geoghegan had decided to sleep there instead of returning to his home in Enfield, north London, before following the victim into her room “uninvited” later that morning as she was undressing.

Wayne Cleaver, prosecuting, told the court Geoghegan proceeded to try to take off the victim’s pyjama bottoms, to which she replied “stop, think about your girlfriend”.

Jurors were told that she repeated this several times to try to “discourage him”, as she was “not interested in intercourse”, but this was ignored.

After gesturing that she was not interested in going further, the alleged rape took place on her bed, the court heard.

Following the incident, the victim told a friend she had been raped and asked Geoghegan “do you remember me asking you to stop?” to which he replied “yes, I thought you were just playing around”.

Mr Cleaver said: “Clearly he heard her say ‘no’, he had heard her indicate that she didn’t want to have sex with him and he also acknowledged that she had indeed pulled her shorts back up when he first pulled them down.”

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In text messages between the pair later that day, the victim told Geoghegan she had been crying and was “all over the place”.

She also told him “I’m upset James because I said no multiple times, but you carried on”.

Mr Cleaver went on to say: “The prosecution case is simple, (the victim) said ‘no’ and (the victim) said ‘stop’ and that is exactly what she meant.

“He accepted in the living room and later in those messages that he heard her say it more than once, but he took no notice of her.

“He disregarded her limits and decided instead to press on.”

Mr Cleaver added: “It was totally unreasonable, he had no reasonable belief that she was consenting, less still that she was inviting sexual intercourse with him.

“It may be that he felt that he had waited long enough and this was his opportunity to go all the way without any real regard to what she actually wanted and to what she was clearly indicating.”

He said that as a police officer, Geoghegan had “professional insight” on where “sexual boundaries may be crossed”.

Geoghegan is charged with rape. He denies the allegations against him.

The trial continues.

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