A WOMAN was raped after she refused to have sex for money at a party, a court heard.

Kujtimi Gjoni, 32, allegedly attacked the woman in her own home, near Leytonstone High Road, as her boyfriend watched back in October 2010.

Jurors at Snaresbrook Crown Court heard that the night before the couple had been drinking in the Bakers Arms pub in Lea Bridge Road, Leyton, before heading into central London to meet friends, including Mr Gjoni.

The group then went back to the 27-year-old woman's home, stopping to buy vodka in the High Road on the way.

The court heard that the friends continued to drink into the early hours of the morning, while also taking cocaine and smoking cannabis.

The woman claims Mr Gjoni then asked how much it would cost to have sex with her, but she told him to get lost.

She later went to bed at 7am but awoke to find him raping her.

Prosecutor William Eaglestone said: “she felt she was being held down and she realised that it wasn't her boyfriend, it was this defendant.

“She looked around and she remembers seeing, in her bedroom, her boyfriend and one of the men.”

The court heard that the woman, who cannot be named, shouted at Gjoni to stop and screamed at him to get off, but he carried on holding her down.

Eventually she was able to escape from underneath him and chased him out of the house with a mop handle.

After hearing the shouting a neighbour went to investigate and was told by the woman that she had been raped.

Mr Gjoni was not arrested until January 2011 and when interviewed by the police he admitted having sex with the woman, but said it was consensual.

Mr Eaglestone told jurors: “The prosecution case is this - she is quite clear that she did not want this defendant to have sex with her. She gave him no sign that she wanted to have sex with him.

“In fact, when she realised it was him , she told him to stop and tried to get out from under him , and he was holding her down, a sign that you might think, that he knew that she did not want this to be happening.”

Gjoni, of Kempton House, on the Whitemore Estate in Islington, denies rape.

The trial continues.