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A man who denies raping a drunk woman in a Skegness park had been in the UK for just 40 days, a jury heard on Thursday.

Saad Gomaa, 34, denies raping the woman in the resort’s Tower Gardens on 9 June this year, telling jurors it was consensual sex which lasted around two minutes.

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The High Court has issued its ruling on the Home Office’s asylum centre plans for RAF Scampton, ultimately siding with the government.

After two lengthy days of proceedings in London’s Royal Courts of Justice on October 31 and November 1, and more than a month of anticipation, Mrs Justice Thornton issued her final verdict on Wednesday, December 6.

A woman was raped in Skegness park by a man who told her he was an “illegal,” a jury heard on Tuesday.

Saad Gomaa, 34, denies raping the woman in the resort’s Tower Gardens on 9 June this year.

Read the full court report on MyLocal Lincolnshire, the new home of The Lincolnite