Three men have denied raping an 18-year-old girl and accused her of wrecking their lives through false allegations.
Chef Gulam Choudhury and hospital worker Zulkodor Ali say they have suffered racist abuse on the streets of Exeter as a result of the allegations.
Choudhury told Exeter Crown Court the girl had forced him to have sex with her and ruined his reputation.
Ali told the jury he had been made to look like a monster and had been shunned because of publicity arising from the rape trial.
Warehouseman Tomasz Lipinski has already given evidence the girl had been a willing partner who waited for him to go out and buy condoms before they had consensual sex at Choudhury's house.
The prosecution allege the men took it in turns to rape the vulnerable 18-year-old care leaver after plying her with vodka, beer, cannabis and lines of amphetamines.
The complainant says Lipinski attacked her first in an upstairs room in Bonhay Road, Exeter, and held her down by force as he had sex with her.
She says Ali then followed him into the spare room where he also held her down and after the two men left she was raped again by Choudhury who put his hands around her neck.
The girl was out with two friends when she met the men at the Golden Horn kebab house in Exeter and went with them to party at two houses before ending up alone with them at Bonhay Road.
Lipinski, aged 25, of North Lawn Court, Zulkodar Ali, aged 41, of Salters Road, and Gulum Choudhury, aged 39, all Exeter, all deny raping the girl in August 2012.
The three men are all mixed martial arts enthusiasts who had met at a gym and gone on to get a kebab when they picked up the girls in the kebab shop.
Lipinski gave evidence last week and said the girl had been a willing participant. He said:"It was a mutual thing. She wanted sex and so did I. I knew she wanted to have sex with me."
Ali denied forcing the girl to have sex. He said he had gone upstairs in Choudhury's house and met the girl who had taken him into a room and had sex with him willingly.
He said:"I did not rape her. It is not my thing to do. I know she has made a complaint and I cannot change that. I did not do anything wrong. This is not right. I hope nobody has to go through what I have been through.
"I had sex with her on the floor. She took me into the room. It was all down to her. She was talking to me and I spent time with her. I did not force her to do anything.
"I am not that kind of person. I never, ever did that. She had sex with me full well 100 per cent consenting.
"This is embarrassing me. I have a big and respectable family. I cannot explain to them what is going on. My life is over. I never did that. I am not a monster. What is happening here is really horrible."
Choudhury, who was separated and living on his own at the time, said the girl had kissed him and touched him earlier in the evening but he was not aware of the other two men having sex with her when they got back to his home.
He said:"The girl had everything she wanted. She used us and abused us and look where we are now. We are humiliated and have lost respect. You don't know how hard it is when people stop me in the street and say things.
"All I ask is for other people to have to live my life and they will feel what I feel, with people saying things to them when you walk around Exeter as a dark person.
"She knew what she was doing. I have got kids and family. It is not fair. She is going to get away with all the damage she has done. She followed us. She forced herself on us. She wanted to come to the house.
"I did not force her in any way to come back. I just wanted to chill out. She was a very entertaining lady and we were having a laugh. Why not? I'm single.
"She came with me and then went off with my mates. She said she liked me and thought I was cool but that was not very loyal or nice.
"She was the one who was lap dancing. She has invented this problem. I have not done anything wrong. This woman has tried to destroy three men's lives, their jobs, their careers.
"I did not rape her. I would not do anything like that. I am a very proud man, especially with women. I don't need to do that. That's the truth. She made me have sex. Whatever happened was by her consent."
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