A woman had previously been warned by police to stop stalking the man she accuses of raping her, a court has been told. 

Ryan Hase, 29, is on trial at Norwich Crown Court accused of the rape of two women in 2011 and 2015.

One of the complainants, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, has told the court she was raped twice by Hase in 2015, once near a bridge in Norwich, after he grabbed her by the neck and forced her into sex.

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But in his cross examination of her via video link, defence counsel Jonathan Goodman asked why she had initially withdrawn her allegations four days after making them. 

She said: “I was retracting the statement because I was terrified and didn’t know what to do. This was my first time being involved with the police and I was scared. 

She added: “I was under pressure from Ryan to drop the charges because he didn’t want his little brother to find out about them.”

Mr Goodman asked why she had been visited by a police officer and given a harassment warning notice - also known as a Police Information Notice (PIN) - to stop stalking Hase.

“I don’t remember that. I have worked hard to try to block out this period of my life,” she replied.

She denied visiting his workplace after the rapes were said to have taken place and a Norwich pub where his girlfriend worked in order to “intimidate her”.

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Accused of having a “selective memory” by Mr Goodman, she added: “This is not an act of revenge by any means.”

The jury of eight men and four women have previously heard from a second woman that she had pretended to be dead in a bid to help end her ordeal in 2011.

Hase, of Bentley Way, near Mile Cross Lane, Norwich, denies three charges of rape and assault by penetration.

The trial continues.