A man accused of breaking into a woman's home and raping her at knifepoint defended himself against the allegation, claiming they had consensual sex that she paid for.

A Supreme Court jury heard how the self-confessed heroin user told Police after his arrest: "I didn't rape her. I didn't force her."

And when he took the witness stand at Supreme Court he made allegations that the woman behaved on the night in question like she had taken drugs.

"To be fair to her I never suggested smoking any drugs but in my world her behaviour was as if she had a smoke of coke. I'm not saying she did but that's her behaviour," the 54-year-old told the jury.

The woman, during evidence earlier this week, said she awoke in the early hours of November 12 2006 to find a knife-wielding intruder inside the bedroom of her Pembroke home. She said he threatened to kill her, raped her, and made her shower afterwards.

The woman said after this her assailant made her put on sunglasses while it was still dark and drive to a bank ATM to withdraw $1,000, warning he would kill her if she looked at his face.

Neither the complainant nor the defendant, of no fixed address, can be identified for legal reasons. The man denies charges of aggravated burglary and serious sexual assault causing bodily harm while armed, plus robbery and deprivation of liberty.

The court heard a tape of a Police interview with the man on 17 November after his arrest on November 15. In it, he said the woman came to the Ducking Stool area of Pembroke at 11 p.m on the night in question, and took him back to her house to look at an upstairs bathroom window that was missing panes and needed fixing. Then, he said, she offered him a glass of wine and the gift of a small radio, both of which he refused.

Later, he said, the woman invited him to take a shower — which he claimed they did together — before having sex that lasted "a few minutes".

The defendant, who is black, went on to tell the Police that the woman, who is white, later took him to a bank ATM and got $1,000 for him.

"I didn't ask for money. My experience is white girls always want to give black guys money after sex," he said. He denied he had sexually assaulted the complainant or forced her to take a shower or go to the bank.

When the officers showed him a cell phone they recovered from a garden of a house near where the woman lived, he agreed it looked like his. However, he said he did not recognise a black "skully cap" or headscarf also found nearby.

On the witness stand, he made further allegations about the lady's behaviour.

"To be perfectly honest, when I first met her that evening, she gives me the impression she's skittish. When I say skittish she's...what's the word I'm looking for?...she's not smooth-flowing. She jumps from conversation to conversation. She was acting erratic" he said, before alleging she behaved as if she had been smoking cocaine.

He repeated his assertions that he had not broken into the woman's house or raped her. In answer to a question from Senior Crown counsel Paula Tyndale, he agreed he did not know the woman's name prior to the date in question and she did not know his.

The case continues.