JACK Tweed raped a teenager after picking her out as the “shiest and prettiest” girl he could find, and then refused to answer any police questions about what happened, a court heard.

Tweed, the 22-year-old widower of reality TV star Jade Goody, and his friend Anthony Davis, 25, of Stradbroke Drive in Chigwell, allegedly deliberately targeted the 19-year-old from a group of girls who had come back to Tweed's home after a night out in September last year.

In the second week of the pair's trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court, jurors heard how Tweed refused to speak to police after they arrested him at his flat in the Brandesbury Square section of the luxury gated community of Repton Park in Woodford Bridge.

Tweed and Davis, who deny the allegations, say the girl consented to sex.

Taking to the stand today, Tweed was accused of inconsistencies in his account of what happened.

Prosecutor Linda Strudwick said his version of events in court had been embellished from a less-detailed initial defence statement written shortly after the alleged rape.

But he told jurors that was because his solicitor “wrote what he thought was best and I signed it”.

He added: “It's not my instruction to tell him [the solicitor] what to write”.

Tweed also said that for most of the time he was having sex with the girl he was unaware that his friend Davis, an estate agent, was in the room.

He claimed he only realised that Davis was there when he suddenly joined them on the bed.

But Ms Strudwick said: “He must have been a few feet, a metre away...and you really didn't see him?”

Tweed replied: “No, because we [Tweed and the girl] was kissing the whole time”.

Ms Strudwick also suggested to Tweed that if his version of events was to be believed then Davis had effectively been “spying” on him and the girl, and that it was “creepy” that he would suddenly approach them both out of the darkness with an erect penis.

Tweed said he stopped having sex with the teenager and left the room when he saw his friend.

But Ms Strudwick said: “You could have left that girl in a vulnerable position by a man whose sexual deviancy is plain.”

But Tweed said the girl seemed to enjoy the attention of Davis, so he did not feel concerned about leaving her with him.

He also said he refused to answer police questions because his solicitor had advised him not to.

Tweed, who was watched on by a large contingent of family and friends in the public gallery, added that he went into a state of "shock" when police told him he had been accused of rape.

The case has now been adjourned until Thursday morning.