A WORRIED husband who left his wife in Worcester city centre after an argument eventually got in touch by mobile phone only to hear her claim that someone had tried to have sex with her.

He told a jury at Worcester Crown Court that she seemed confused and disorientated.

She was scared, didn’t know where she was, and repeated the rape allegation.

The couple, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had been drinking heavily to celebrate the wife’s 30th birthday. The prosecution alleges that she was picked up at SJ’s night club in the Trinity when she was alone and attacked by Udi Yamini in his car.

Yamini, aged 29, formerly of Worcester but now of no fixed address, denies raping the woman on Saturday, May 3, claiming that sex was consensual.

The husband said she had drunk at least seven glasses of wine during visits to two pubs, a curry house and her mother’s home. Their final call was at the Old Rectifying House, where they parted company after an argument. He left her by a taxi rank at the Cross after midnight and walked home.

She was drunk but knew what she was doing and had her wits about her.

But by 3am when she had not returned home, he made repeated calls to her mobile.

When he eventually got through, she made the sex allegation. After contacting a friend, he rang the police, who found her at 5am.

Cross-examined by Tim Burns, defending, he said he had drunk five pints.

His wife, who suffered from mood swings, had been angry with him.

“She gets paranoid,” he said. “She has the idea that I work with glamorous ladies and worries that I might leave her.”

He confirmed that his wife had been involved in two previous drunken incidents.

In 2006, he had found his wife drunk lying asleep beside a man in a park. She could remember nothing.

The following year, she was drunk in the city centre but again suffered from loss of memory.

The jury heard that on the night in question the alleged victim called her best friend, who said she sounded desperate and crying. She heard her say “I don’t want that” and grunting noises.

The call did not ring off and she heard sobbing and a man’s voice saying: “Do you want more?”

Her friend said “no” in a tone of dejected helplessness. She could detect the fear in her voice.

The trial continues.