A DOCTOR found a young woman had bruises and scratches over her body after she told police she was raped, a court heard yesterday.

The 22-year-old was examined after she said she was raped in Church Lane, Witney, in the early hours of Saturday, May 14, last year.

Twenty-six year old Mark Just, of Sedge Way, Carterton denies two charges of rape and said the sex was consensual.

Forensic doctor Tanya Claxton, who examined the alleged victim the afternoon following the incident, told Oxford Crown Court the woman had a swollen left ear, a “love bite” on her neck, scratches on her back, and bruises on her right arm and her inner thigh. But she said some of the injuries were likely to be older than 24 hours and none of them were necessarily a sign of rape.

The trial continues.