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13.02.2024 - 15:05 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A woman was raped by a former Manchester United youth team footballer and a friend of his after a night out, a jury has been told.
John Cofie played for the Old Trafford club from the age of 14 until he was 21, before playing abroad until the age of 26, jurors were told. Both Cofie and Nathan Stuart, both now 31, deny the charges of rape they face.
Opening the case to the jury at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court on Tuesday, Vanessa Thomson, prosecuting, said the alleged victim was 25 at the time.
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The jury was told she went out with a friend in Altrincham, Trafford, and met Cofie and Stuart on the evening of April 12, 2019. She was said to have known Mr Stuart 'for many, many years'.
Jurors were told the women went to the Conservative Club in Altrincham, buying a bottle of wine and sitting outside to drink it. Ms Thomson said they later went inside and were 'called over' by the defendants to join them. All four then went to the Green Room at Goose Green in Altrincham.
Ms Thomson said the alleged victim recalls being there and going outside for a cigarette, but told jurors 'that was the last of what she really recalled of the rest of the evening'.
She said the woman, who can't be named for legal reasons, was to later learn that she had also been to the Tiki Bar after the Green Room.
Ms Thomson said: "She drank alcohol and as the night progressed, she was later to tell the police that memories of the evening disappeared. She recalled having a cigarette with her friend outside one pub and the next memory was being picked up the following morning by her father from Nathan Stuart's home.
"Her disappearance that night caused
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