A woman has told a jury how she found a friend injured and claiming she had been raped after hearing a cry of pain.

The witness, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she and her 19-year-old friend had returned to her house with two men they had met in a Weston-super- Mare nightclub.

One of them was Abas Hassan, aged 23, of High Street, Easton, who denies three counts of rape in November last year.

The witness told Bristol Crown Court she was in her bedroom with the other man when she heard someone cry out from downstairs, where her friend had been in the sitting room with Hassan. Hassan came upstairs and talked to the man she was with, and both of them left.

She said: "I went downstairs and I was shocked to see blood."

Her friend had gone but she found her outside and coaxed her back in.

The witness said: "She told me what happened. Her first words were 'It hurts, I think he raped me'."

The woman said that before the incident her friend had whispered to her about wanting condoms and she had given her some.

The complainant has told the jury Hassan forced her to commit a sex act on him before having non- consensual intercourse with her.

The case continues.