A 50 Year-old woman, Muriel Coleman, who’d fallen into arrears with her rent was let off the payments in return for helping a relative of her landlord find a teenage girl he could rape, a court heard.
Hassan Akhtar – whose family owned the flat she rented – repeatedly rape a teenager between December 2012 and March 2013, the jury was told.
Akhtar told police Coleman is trying to frame him and it was in fact her he had sex with, an act he said was consensual.
Coleman, admitted to two counts of assisting in the rape of a young woman. However Akhtar, 37, denies four counts of rape and one attempted rape.
The alleged rapes are said to have happened after Coleman, from Durham, found herself in financial difficulties.
Sarah Mallett, prosecuting, said the alleged crimes came to light when the young woman confided in a friend.
Concerned, the pal then alerted police who contacted the alleged victim – who cannot be named for legal reasons – for an interview.