An alleged multiple rape victim told a Supreme Court judge and jury yesterday that her attacker threatened to shoot her if she did not give in.

And the Sandys Parish woman told the six-man, six-woman jury how the man forced himself upon her several times during the alleged incident last March.

Neither she nor her alleged attacker can be named for legal reasons.

The 25-year-old defendant, also from Sandys Parish, is charged with one count of serious sexual assault and one count of stealing the woman's gold earrings.

He has denied the allegations since his arrest earlier this year and pleaded not guilty to the charges during yesterday's hearing.

The complainant said she was driving her motorcycle home along Bob's Valley Road, Sandys between midnight and 1 a.m. on March 27.

She said the defendant, who she knew only by sight, flagged her down and pleaded for a ride.

"At first I was reluctant,'' she said, "but seeing as I knew his grandmother quite well, I agreed.'' The witness went on to describe how, after getting on the back of her red Honda Lead scooter, the man told her to drive down the Railway Trail instead of taking the main road as she planned.

"He threatened to put a cap in my back if I refused. I took this to mean that he would shoot me,'' she told the court.

Telling her to stop at a darkened patch of grass along the track, the man was also alleged to have admitted to feeling nice and she said he told her: "When I saw you I knew you were my victim.'' After stopping the bike and putting it on its stand, the complainant said she turned around and found the defendant "with his penis out and wearing a condom''.

"There was nothing I could do,'' she continued. "He pulled me around to the front of the bike and started trying to pull down my sweat pants.

"Eventually he got one side of them down so he turned me around, put his hands on my neck and got me down on all fours.'' It was testified that the defendant managed to have forced intercourse with her three times.

"I was trying to talk him down the whole time, trying to make him feel sorry,'' she said, "but it didn't work. He was just so cold.'' She alleged that the defendant said: "Look b****, don't play with me'' and put his hands around the victim's throat.

"This is the first time any b**** has ever fought back,'' he allegedly continued.

The complainant said she started to scream but "when I did this he slapped me and told me to shut the f*** up''.

"At that point I just gave in. When he finished I asked him why would you do such a thing? He said he couldn't give a f*** and added all you bitches deserve the same treatment.

"I've done the same thing to Americans, Jamaicans, Puerto Ricans and Bermudians and never been caught.'' The complainant then alleged that the man brought out a pack of cigarettes and lit one up.

"When he did that'' she said, "he noticed that I had some gold earrings on.

Before I knew it, he had snatched them off my ears. I never saw them again.'' The incident apparently ended shortly after, with the complainant driving the defendant back to where she had picked him up and dropping him off.

Upon arrival he allegedly said: "Don't forget. If you go to the man about this I'll find you and kill you.'' "I drove as fast as I could to Somerset Police Station,'' the complainant said.

She then identified a cigarette packet that was found at the scene the next morning to be the same one as her alleged attacker had.

For the defence, lawyer Patricia Harvey-Burch asked the defendant to clarify her testimony.

It was revealed that she lied during her first statement to the Police, falsely identifying the place where she had been originally been coming from because it was "of an extremely personal, sensitive nature''.

Evidence was also heard from a Police officer who examined the alleged attack scene later on the morning of the incident.

Det. Con. Jewell Hayward described how he found various pieces of evidence, including a used condom, an empty box of cigarettes and a cigarette butt.

The evidence was photographed and shown to the jury.

The trial continues today in Supreme Court Number One before Puisne Judge Philip Storr. Crown Counsel Sandra Bacchus appears for the Attorney General's Chambers.