A jury has heard a 16-year-old girl describe being raped on the beach in Brighton by Joseph Eubank at Lewes Crown Court this afternoon (Monday 23 September).
In a video recording of a police interview, the girl said that she was drunk, had become separated from her friends and didn’t really know what was happening.
Beverly Cripps, prosecuting, told the court: “He took her down to the beach, towards the bottom of the groyne near to the sea. On the way, she had stumbled more than once.
“But he pulled her up, taking her further down the beach. When she fell for the final time, he sat beside her. She has a recollection that he may have kissed her.”
It was then, that Eubank is alleged to have raped the girl twice in a few moments before getting up and just walking off back up the beach.
The 27-year-old is the youngest son of former boxer Chris Eubank Sr and the brother of boxer Chris Eubank Jr.
The teenager, whose identity is protected by law, said that she had come into Brighton with a group of friends to celebrate a friend’s birthday.
They listened to music and had been drinking vodka, initially with a mixer and later neat, on the seafront close to the Palace Pier, on Saturday 16 July 2022.
She said: “I think I drank quite a lot without any actual mixer. (I was) very drunk. I couldn’t actually see straight. I was sitting down for most of the evening because I couldn’t stand up easily … I hadn’t drunk like that ever.”
She said that Eubank approached her and asked how old she was – and she said 16 and he that he told her that he was 26.
Miss Cripps said: “She remembered he had said something about ‘going to look at the moon’ which was prominent that night.”
When Eubank walked her down the beach, the girl said that he gripped her hand and arm tightly in a way that felt aggressive and that he was in a hurry to get down the beach.
The girl said that she was going slower because she kept stumbling and falling in her drunken state but he was impatient.
Afterwards she left the beach and met up with her friends, telling one of them that she had been raped. She cried for about half an hour.
Miss Cripps said: “The group went back to (a friend’s) house as arranged. (The complainant), who had to check in with her mother, was unable to contact her as she had lost her phone.
“She logged into to a friend’s Instagram and tried contacting her mother that way but was unable to do so.
