AN alleged rapist used the rips in a woman’s designer jeans to pull them off her, a jury has heard.

Gordon Cowan denies biting and raping the woman on a bathroom floor during a drunken house party in Lochgelly, last year.

But the 27-year-old mum-of-three told a jury that Cowan walked into the toilet and pulled down her trendy black jeans using the slashes in the fabric as a handhold.

She admitted that she had not locked the door when she went to the toilet in her friend’s one-bedroom flat in Cook Square in the early hours of April 22 2017.

She said: “I went to pull my jeans and my pants down to do a pee, then the door opened.

“I assumed it would have been (my friend) because at her house, my house or when we were out we went to the toilet together a lot.

“It was Gordon. He just smiled, and I said to him: ‘What are you doing? You cannae just come in when people are peeing.’

“I said he wasn’t one of the lassies. I just tried to make a bit of a joke of it. He just laughed.”

She said she immediately pulled her jeans and pants back up but Cowan walked towards her and tried to kiss her against her wishes for the second time that evening.

She said: “I put my hands out and I pushed him. I lost my footing and I fell forward and bumped my head off the bathroom door.

“He just smiled. It wasn’t like an evil smile, it was just like he thought it was funny.

“He came down onto the floor. He pulled at my jeans. Pulling them down.

“I was wriggling about and I tried to push him off with my hands. He put his hand in my jeans at my knee and pulled. They already had a rip in them and his hand went through the rip on my right leg.”

Speaking through tears she said: “I was quite upset by this point. I think I started to realise what was going to happen.”

The woman then rushed from the witness box sobbing, and had a 30-minute break to regain her composure before continuing.

She then described how the accused moved her pants aside, took himself out of his tracksuit bottoms and raped her on the floor.

Holding her head in hands, shaking and extremely distressed she said she managed to push Cowan off her and turn away from him on her knees.

She said: “My head was facing the toilet. He pulled my hair at the back. He pushed my head forward and my right cheek was on the cold bit of the toilet. I pushed myself back and sat down.”

At that, she said, Cowan put both his hands in the air in a sign of surrender and went away.

She added: “I thought he was going to say sorry but he just left the room. I got up and locked the door.

“I had to sit down against the radiator. I thought I was going to be sick. I don’t know how long I sat there…. a few minutes. I was in complete shock.”

She told her estranged husband what had happened when she got home and he phoned the police to report the rape while she was being sick into a basin.

Cowan, 27, a prisoner at Perth, denies the charge and has lodged a special defence claiming that any sexual activity between him and the woman, who can’t be identified for legal reasons, was consensual.

The trial, before Lord Uist, continues.