A NIGHTCLUB boss says the young woman who accuses him of sexually assaulting her after forcing her to snort cocaine is telling ‘lies’, and he branded police ‘corrupt’.

Bushwackers owner Darren Pinches of Bromyard Road, Worcester, denies administering cocaine with intent to stupefy or overpower the complainant to enable him to engage in sexual activity and sexual assault against her on January 1 last year.

The 52-year-old further denies possession of cocaine on January 13 last year, supplying cocaine between February 9 and 15, 2016 to another woman and offering to supply cocaine to a third woman between September 3 and 5, 2015.

The trial continues tomorrow at Warwick Crown Court.

Pinches is said to have forced a bag of cocaine into the then 19-year-old woman’s face at a private office in Bushwackers in Worcester when he noticed she was only pretending to take it. She says she panicked and inhaled the class A drug during the incident on New Year’s Day last year.

He is then alleged to have sexually assaulted her by pulling down her top, kissing her chest and pressing his hand against her genitals over her clothing which she described as ‘painful’.

The prosecution say the ‘small woman’ punched Pinches in the throat and fled the club shouting and crying.

Ben Aina QC, prosecuting, said: “It’s the prosecution case that he uses cocaine and, when he takes cocaine, he becomes unpleasant and he encourages women to join him in his cocaine taking. What then follows is either consensual sexual activity or non-consensual sexual activity.”

He added: “What is Darren Pinches’s defence? In short, he did not give any cocaine to anyone. He did not sexually assault anyone. The three women are making stories up and the police are corrupt.”

When Darren Pinches was interviewed he said he disposed of a substance identified later as cocaine down a sink at his home in Fernhill Heath because he did not want his wife or children to come across it.

Pinches said he only made ‘small talk’ with the complainant in the sexual assault allegation and told officers: “Nothing physical happened.”

Mr Aina said: “He denied using any force against her, physically or verbally. He denied removing her upper clothing and kissing her chest area and denied touching her genitals through her clothing.”

Pinches also said that he ‘did not wear underwear’ in response to the complainant saying he had removed his own boxer shorts and trousers and told officers he would not have done so because of his embarrassment about skin lesions on his legs and buttocks.

Pinches said these lesions were the result of ‘stress’ and not caused by taking cocaine. The prosecution case is that the cattle worming component of the cocaine seized by police can result in such lesions developing.

In a second interview he acknowledged he had bought a 44-year-old complainant a complimentary drink but denied he requested her company at Browns at the Quay, denied inviting her to his office there or that he had lined up five or six lines of cocaine or propositioned her for sex.

She told police she thought her drink had been spiked by Pinches or someone in his employment.

He said consensual sex with another woman, now 22, did not happen and that Browns at the Quay had been flooded at the time. The woman described walking through flood water and referred to ‘scarring’ on his body.

The trial continues.