A YOUNG woman hid behind a van because she believed a Worcester nightclub boss was ‘chasing’ her after she snorted cocaine and kissed him, a court heard.

Her video interview was played during the trial of Bushwackers owner Darren Pinches before she gave evidence behind a screen at Warwick Crown Court on Friday.

Pinches, 52, of Bromyard Road, Worcester, denies administering cocaine with intent to overpower or stupefy and a sexual assault in a storeroom on the first floor of the city nightclub on January 1 last year.

He further denies possession of cocaine at his then home at Berkley Gardens, Fernhill Heath on January 13 last year, supplying cocaine to a second woman between February 9 and 15, 2016 and offering to supply cocaine to a third woman between September 3 and 5, 2015.

The second complainant, now 22, said she was ‘very drunk’ at Bushwackers on February 10, 2016 and followed Pinches and her friend into ‘the Crypt’, then closed to the public. Her evidence is that her friend and Pinches snorted cocaine off a stone ledge next to a mirror on the stairs. She was not forced to take it but felt ‘pressured’ to do so before the three of them were driven by a black man in a suit in a red Audi to an apartment at the Quay in Worcester.

There she said Pinches snorted more cocaine in a bedroom, calling her friend and her into the room in turns. When she went inside the bedroom she said Pinches had taken his trousers off.

She says the two kissed and he brushed her private parts over her thong and touched the inside of her legs. She said: “I have a feeling he had scars on his legs but I’m not 100 per cent. That could be something I have just made up.”

She left with a friend by a different way to how she had entered, walking through flood water. “Because we were so nervous or scatty we went and hid behind a van because we thought they (Pinches and the other man) were chasing us,” she said.

Michael Burrows QC, for Pinches, said: “Darren Pinches disputes what you say has happened. It may be that he met you but he’s never supplied you with cocaine, has he?” She replied: “He has.”

Mr Burrows said Pinches had never taken her to Browns at The Quay and there was ‘never any sexual encounter of any kind’.

“Yes there was,” she said.

The trial continues.