A woman said she blamed herself for being raped by two strangers she invited back to her flat.

She told police she had been attacked by the two men after befriending them in a park.

But she said she felt it was her own fault – for trusting the two men too easily.

Daniel Krol, 32, of Gower Road, Haywards Heath, and Remigiusz Laszczuk, 34, of South Road, Haywards Heath, are on trial at Lewes Crown Court.

Both deny rape, sexual assault on a female and aiding and abetting another to sexually assault a female.

The jury was told the woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said she was attacked after she met the men in Victoria Park, Haywards Heath, and invited them to her home to listen to music on July 6 last year.

In a recorded police statement the woman told how the group listened to music and danced before the men pushed her onto a sofa and raped her.

During a video interview with police, the woman said the men “laughed” and “talked” as they attacked her. “It was like a game,” she said, describing how she felt “numb” afterwards.

The woman described how the men held her down, putting their hands over her mouth. She continued: “I always said I would be strong if something like this happened but I was not.

“The fear gets into you. I am a hard person but I was not hard. I was like a little baby. I felt weak and frightened."

She said she had become severely depressed since the incident and was now too frightened to leave her home.

She told police: “It was my fault. No woman would invite men round if she did not know them. I didn’t think there would be any harm in it. They seemed to be OK people.”

The court was played a recording of her 999 call, in which she told an operator: “Can you come round to my house please? I’ve been raped.”

The men were still in the property at the time. She could be heard asking them their names.

Rupert Hallowes, defending Laszczuk, asked her if she was slurring her words on the recording because she was “significantly under the influence of alcohol”.

She said: “Under the influence, yes.”

However, she said she was far from drunk.

The trial continues.

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