TWO men dragged a boy into a doorway and raped him after luring him away from a bus stop, a court heard.
The 19-year-old had been on a Christmas night out in Brighton when he got separated from his friends.
After his phone died, the boy went to the bus stop to make his way home at around 3am when he was approached by Mark Lett, 43, and George Ellis, 41, jurors were told.
Lett and Ellis had checked into a Travelodge earlier that night, while the teen had been drinking “in various pubs“.
Hove Trial Centre heard the trio “started chatting” before they were all captured on CCTV walking away together.
The boy claimed Lett and Ellis asked if he wanted to have a threesome and later told police the offer made his skin crawl.
Jurors were told he was then “pushed against a wall” before being led into a doorway, down some basement stairs and raped.
The boy told police: “I remember stumbling, my head came down and I remember something in the back of my neck.
“I remember my jeans being down and my belt being loose.
“I remember saying ‘no, no, no, no, no’.”
The court heard he also shouted out “you’re raping me, you’re trying to rape me” before he was punched.
He also managed to grab Ellis and bite his face during the alleged attack on December 21, 2024.
The group were at the bottom of the basement stairs for around five minutes in total, before they emerged back onto the street, it was said.
Jurors were told the boy was comforted by members of the public as he “cried his eyes out” before police found him “very distressed”.
Lett and Ellis are charged with rape, causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and assault with intent to commit a relevant sexual offence.
The trial continues.
