A takeaway owner accused of taking part in the gang rape of a teenager told police: "I was in bed with my wife!"

The prosecution has alleged that Tamin Rahmani was one of four men who took a drunken 16-year-old to a flat above his pizza shop in Ramsgate.

Rahmani, 37, of Northwood Road, Ramsgate, Shershah Muslimyar, 20, of Hovenden Close, Canterbury and Rafiullah Hamidy, 24, of no fixed address and a teenager from Ashford, who can’t be named, all deny three rape charges.

The jury at Canterbury Crown Court heard how the youngster was found wandering around the street by a woman who took her to her home for safety.

The alleged victim’s mum was alerted and called police, telling them: “They picked her up off the street and took her in a house... they raped her.”

The 999 telephone call was played to the jury in which the girl tells the operator: “I was just walking, I was on the phone to my friend... so I put the phone back in my pocket and all they did was come running up to me and they just picked me up and carried me into some house but I... to be honest I don’t even know where it is.

"Yeah and I was like meant to be meeting my friends but I can’t find them at the moment. I was like, do you know how I can get to Cliftonville?

“They was like, yeah, if you come with us we’ll show you, so I started walking with them ‘cos I thought they (were) telling the truth.”

"They all like want to have sex with me and that and like ‘cos obviously I was really scared, so I just went along with is ‘cos I didn’t know what else to do" - Alleged victim

The teenager said some of the men then began kissing her and she went along with them because "I didn’t want them to like hit me or anything".

She told the operator she thought there were five men in the room where there was just a mattress and where they raped her.

She told the police: “They all like want to have sex with me and that and like ‘cos obviously I was really scared, so I just went along with is ‘cos I didn’t know what else to do.

“They turned the lights off as well so I wouldn’t be able to... I wouldn’t be able to identify their faces.”

She claimed that during the attack she banged her head and feared she was going to pass out. She began crying and the men left the room.

She added that after leaving the building she phoned a friend for help "and then this very nice lady" heard her crying and offered her help.

But Rahmani told police he had been working in his restaurant 555 Kebab Pizza shop until 1am.

He said: "I go to my flat. I go to the sofa and sitting. She was there as well, my wife.

"And I say: ‘I’m going to take a shower’. I take a shower because it was hot inside here and then I said: 'Little bit tired, let’s go to bed. When morning come I go to the gym’. We go to bed, sleep.”

A detective asked him if he left the room that night and he replied: ‘No, no, no, I sleep. I sleep. (I fell asleep) straightaway. I’m tired on Saturdays.”

He claimed he woke up at 6am intending to go to the gym but decided to return to his bed where his wife was.

The officer showed him footage of a white Range Rover, which police allege was used to take the other three men to the flat.

Rahmani, who owns a White Range Rover, was asked if he had been driving it, and told police: “I’m not driving. I was sleeping.”

The trial continues.