A WOMAN feared her ex-partner would kill her unborn baby by deliberately driving his car into a wall while she was a passenger.

The 21 year-old mum told a jury that things started to go wrong in her relationship with David Gray after he started turning violent and abusive for no apparent reason.

She claimed Gray raped her by having sex after she’d told him to stop then behaved afterwards as if nothing had happened.

She said: “We’d been having consensual sex before it happened. I asked David to stop before we were finished because I wasn’t enjoying it. I didn’t want to do it.

“He stopped then he started trying to reinitiate – kissing me, cuddling me, trying to touch the top of my legs, things like that to start again, but I just kept saying I didn’t want to. He just kept saying ‘Come on’.

“He said that it wasn’t fair, we had to get even. He grabbed hold of me and kind of lifted me up by the arms and shoved me onto the middle of the bed. He grabbed me by the wrists above my shoulders.

“I remember saying to him so clearly ‘I’m not consenting’. I remember using the proper words.

"I said: ‘I’m not consenting. If you do this now it’s rape.’ He just said 'We’re getting even'.

“He had me pinned against the bed and started having sex with me. He was completely on me for quite a while. He was just pinning me.

"I was pushing my arms against his hands to try and get them free. He kept saying he loved me and I kept saying ‘Will you stop?’”

She said she was crying throughout her alleged ordeal and, when she asked him afterwards if he knew what had just happened he replied: “We got even.”

She added: “We started watching TV and eating pizza. It was a really strange moment. It’s as if there was a massive elephant in the room nobody wanted to talk about. I guess I didn’t want to admit to myself what had happened.

“The next day he said he was really sorry for what happened and he was the most apologetic he’d ever been. I’m pretty sure he said 'I never should have forced myself on you' but that’s as close as he got.

“We never referred to it full on as he raped me. I suppose we were in a consensual relationship. I knew what had happened wasn’t OK but I tried to play it down so it wasn’t what it was.”

On two other occasions, she claimed that Gray grabbed her by the throat and choked her for up to 30 seconds, leaving red marks on her neck.

She said the car crash threat followed a meal at McDonald’s in Dunfermline to discuss their future. They had another big argument in the car on the way home.

She told the court: “David was driving. He was really angry, shouting all kinds of things and driving fast and erratically. (It was) really scary. He was all over the road – one minute on one side one on the other – then he was going to drive into a wall. It was scary.

“I asked him to stop the car and let me out. He didn’t, not right away. He just kept shouting at me. Eventually he did stop. He locked me in the car."

The woman, who can't be named for legal reasons, said she decided to phone the police after she got home.

She told the jury: "I was scared that he was going to hurt the baby. I thought that day that he was going to drive into a wall and that would make me lose the baby. I wanted to make sure he never got that close ever again.”

She confirmed she had sent Gray a Facebook message saying: “Problems we’re having is because you laid your hands on me more than once. YOU RAPED ME. You trapped me in the car. All the problems I have are down to those things. Still you think I’m the bitch and unpleasant.”

In reply, the jury was told, Gray sent her a message saying: “The rape thing again. I’m extremely sorry for that. The car you could have pushed the unlock button on the door. Yeah I went a bit too far and took control of the car but I did stop and let you out.”

Gray, 21, of Turnbull Grove, Dunfermline, is charged with five offences including behaving in a threatening manner towards the woman on two occasions, assaulting her to her injury by choking her, abducting her by locking her in a car against her will and holding her down on a bed and raping her.

He denies all the charges and has lodged a special defence saying any sexual conduct was with the complainer's consent.

The trial, before Lady Poole at the High Court in Livingston, continues.