THE Darcy Ward sex assault trial has been told the alleged victim consented and “looked like she was enjoying it”.

Speedway star Ward and a 17-year-old boy face a total of five charges after an incident in a hotel room after a Poole Pirates meeting.

But in evidence the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: “It looked like she was up for it – she looked like she was enjoying it.

“She was drunk but she definitely knew what she was doing.

“I thought she wanted it to happen – I thought she was agreeing with it the whole time.”

Asked by his defending barrister, Francis Laird QC: “Was there any complaint about what you did?”, the boy replied “No.”

And when asked: “Did you do anything that night that you knew she did not want you to?”, he replied: “No.”

Australian-born Ward, 20, twice world under-21 champion, is accused of one charge of sexual assault following an incident in the Premier Inn in Holes Bay Road on August 17 last year.

The boy is accused of one charge of rape and three of sexual assault. Both deny the charges.

Bournemouth Crown Court has been told the 17-year-old alleged victim and her friend travelled to Poole from the Midlands and met up with a third man at a Poole Pirates meeting.

The boy told the jury the third man invited he and Ward, of Poole Road, Sturminster Marshall, back to the hotel where the girls were staying and told him the girls were “interested in having some fun”.

He said they all travelled to the hotel in the third man’s car and that the alleged victim “said she wanted to get her leg over”.

Mr Laird QC also read out six characters references to the boy.

A family friend said: “I have never witnessed any examples of nastiness whilst observing him personally or professionally.”

A 20-year-old female friend said: “He has been out with some of my friends and they have never had a bad word to say about him.”

During cross-examination, the boy admitted that at no point did the girl say she wanted to have any sexual activity with him.

He said he ran from the hotel because he panicked when he saw the girl was injured.

The trial continues.