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A BBC Radio 4 presenter accused of drugging and raping a man he met at a party was described as “revolting” and a “bully” by his alleged victim today.
The 27-year-old man told a jury he felt “violated” when Nigel Wrench forced him to perform a sex act hours after they met at a New Year party.
Wrench, a presenter on Radio 4’s PM programme, had invited him round to see an Andy Warhol painting he had, the court heard.
He also told the younger man that he had a bottle of Taittinger at home, and after they arrived showed him his Porsche parked outside, a jury heard.
But after one gulp of the drink, which tasted like “poison”, the alleged victim began to black out and feel his eyes “rolling” in his head, he said today.
He said he ended up in Wrench’s bed where he was repeatedly punched and forced to perform a sex act.
Wrench, 47, of Burgoyne Road, Haringey, north London, denies rape, sexual assault, and administering Temazepam with the intention of “stupefying or overpowering” the man to have sex.
His alleged victim, now a successful PA, said he was “out of it” for a time after they snorted cocaine together in the toilet at the party in January 2007.
He was talking to Wrench about getting work experience on the radio, but said he did not fancy him and was surprised when the presenter started kissing him, and backed away against a wall.
“I didn’t want to be kissed by him. I found him revolting,” said the man, who was 26 at the time.
“At the time I was trying to get work experience with him and I really wanted to keep on being professional. I didn’t want to go over that professional boundary and I didn’t fancy him.”
But the man, who was working at an art gallery at the time, tried to brush it off and later had a conversation about modern art with Wrench, he said.
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