Bristol student Kevin Liew told a jury he was intimate with a fellow student who suddenly turned on him and made him feel like he had raped her.

Liew, who is from Malaysia and studied animation at the University of the West of England, told Bristol Crown Court that he followed the woman into her room and they kissed and cuddled before he briefly had sex with her.

He said when he stopped, because it was unprotected and she looked tired, she turned away from him and she told him to leave.

Liew, 23, of Crow Lane, Henbury, denies rape in March.

He told the court that initially he thought he had hurt the woman.

He said: "She said, 'I trusted you' and I said, 'If I've hurt you, sorry'. She said I shouldn't have done it and I said 'Did I hurt you?'.

"She didn't answer that. She was speaking very softly and she told me to go. That brought more confusion; I was sitting there speechless."

Liew said he left the woman's room and rang his friend to tell him what had happened.

When he returned to the woman's room she started crying and it made him feel as if he had raped her, he said.

He told the jury: "I didn't know what to do. I asked her why she was crying and I said 'If you feel like reporting it to the police you can do it'.

"She didn't respond to that. I didn't think that I had raped her. I didn't want her to cry. I just wanted to console her."

Liew said the woman then gave a "sarcastic smile", laughed and punched him in the face.

He told how he still tried to console her and again suggested she could call the police if it would make her feel better.

The court heard that eventually Liew left the woman's home and was arrested in the city centre in Crow Lane.

Kenneth Bell, prosecuting, has told the court the complainant had returned home from a night out around 2am and fell asleep listening to a Harry Potter audio book.

He told the jury: "The next thing she can remember is waking up on her bed with the defendant on top of her.

"She used the words terrifying, confusing and scary.

"She recognised the shadow and shape of the person and she couldn't believe it was happening."

The woman absolutely denied that, on the night in question, she had consensual sex with the accused.

The case continues at Bristol Crown Court.