with him trying to rape her.

She said the Pembroke man attacked as they sat in his car in a Smith's lay-by.

He allegedly pulled off her clothes and boots -- and she only escaped by pretending she had to urinate.

The woman said she hid in nearby bushes for several hours until a motorist picked her up.

She was giving evidence on the first day of the Supreme Court trial of her 59-year-old alleged attacker.

The man denies assault with intent to commit rape.

Crown Counsel Mr. Stephen Harrison said the alleged offence occurred in the early hours of December 23, 1991.

The pair had been on a night out at the Henry VIII Pub and Restaurant in Southampton.

The woman was allegedly attacked in a lay-by off Harrington Sound Road.

She claimed the man punched her in the face and pulled off her clothes, despite her struggling.

The seven-man five-woman jury heard the woman suffered leg cuts, and a swollen eye.

The woman claimed the man had behaved like a "perfect gentleman'' until he pulled into the lay-by.

She told the man's lawyer Mr. Timothy Marshall how her companion "pushed something to make the seats go back''.

"I told him I had to urinate, and he unlocked the door. He had pulled my clothes off, and I figured he believed I could not run away.'' The woman said the man later turned up at her shop with her clothes in a bag.

A note inside read: "I have always loved you -- what happened between us?''.

Mr. Marshall asked her whether she had been angry with her companion because she had suffered the embarrassment of being left in the streets dressed only in an undergarment.

The woman agreed she had been embarrassed.

The trial continues.