A 47-year-old Nigerian national, Morenikeji Adewale, is currently standing trial at Southwark Crown Court in London over allegations that he raped a 19-year-old woman near a well-known nightclub.
According to court proceedings, Adewale entered the United Kingdom on a tourist visa but later used a false identity to obtain employment illegally.
His true identity was uncovered through fingerprint analysis.
Prosecutors allege that the victim, a Christian teenager who had pledged to remain celibate until marriage, was heavily intoxicated and therefore unable to give consent at the time of the incident.
The TELEGRAPH UK reports further that the woman, the court heard, was said to have been drunk and stumbling. A person can be too intoxicated to give proper consent, the jury was told.
Jurors at Southwark Crown Court have now been told the defendant was on a five-year tourist visa that did not allow him to work in Britain.
He also could not stay for more than six months at a time, and he returned to Nigeria when those stints were up, it was alleged.
Mr Adewole, of Dartford, Kent, also gave a fake name to police when he was arrested following the alleged rape.
The defendant previously pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of an identification document with improper intention.
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The defendant had been employed at Heaven under the name Olusola Julius Alabi.
Officers discovered his real name through fingerprint evidence after his arrest, jurors were told.
Giving evidence, the defendant said he “used a false ID to obtain work, to get a job” and that it was “to make a living… to save for my partner – I’m the one who paid for the rent”.
He said he had come to the UK on vacation and later to find employment.
Asked why he gave officers a false name, he said: “I was panicking, that’s the name people call me at my work.”
