A Basingstoke gymnastics coach is accused of sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman as she ‘laid scared and crying’, a court has been told.

Alexander Hicken, 23, is said to have abused the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, following a family friend’s party on August 11, 2019.

The alleged victim had drunk so much that she “had to be put to bed” and was partially put into her pyjamas, prosecution barrister Emily Cook told Winchester Crown Court in her opening statement.

Ms Cook said that the woman was “so drunk that she was sick every time she moved”.

The woman said that she remembered Hicken, of Loggon Road in Viables, sat on the edge of her bed, rubbing her thigh and bum.

It is said that Hicken, who is listed as a tumbling coach on Basingstoke Gymnastic Club's website, was told to leave her room and he left to go to the pub with others.

Ms Cook said: “On the way to the pub Alex Hicken was making claims about (the alleged victim) and saying that he was going to have sex with (the alleged victim) and then said ‘whoops, shouldn’t have said that’.”

The jury was told that after he returned to the house “he was not finished” with her and allegedly sexually touched and kissed her but was startled by others coming upstairs.

Speaking about later that night, the woman, giving evidence today (Monday), said: “I remember waking up and Alex was stood in the doorway. He came in, I asked him what he was doing.

“He said at that point ‘you just want a shag or something’, I said I absolutely do not.”

She said that in the early hours: “He then went to get into my bed, and I asked him what he was doing. He said he just wanted a cuddle, I told him that he wasn’t going to get it from me because I didn’t want to.”

It is alleged that Hicken got into bed with the woman and sexually touched her, but it is said to have not stopped there as he is accused of touching her again later that morning.

She said: “I remember that I pretended to be asleep. [I was] really scared, I was actually crying.

“Luckily his phone alarm went off. He didn’t say anything he just stopped, he got up and he left.”

The court was told that earlier in the night the woman had spoken to Hicken about another alleged incident involving her friend a week earlier.

The woman alleged that the Hicken tried to kiss her friend, “asking to go into the bushes with her and trying to have sex with her and put his hand up her skirt”.

She said: “He told me that I didn’t know what I was talking about, and I was just jealous because it wasn’t me.”

Hicken has pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual assault on a female.

The trial continues.