A WOMAN who claims a millionaire businessman sexually assaulted her, earlier told him she loved being raped, a court heard.

Anthony Atherton, known as David Atherton, the wealthy founder of computer website Dabs.com, claims the 49-year-old woman made the comment as part of a plan to con him out of his vast fortune, Leeds Crown Court heard yesterday.

Atherton said: “She said ‘I love to be raped’. I am of the opinion that these words were said so close to the incident for the purpose of entrapment. If I had some kind of audio recording of those words, I wouldn’t be here now.”

Atherton said he thought that when he was arrested, the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, intended to ask him for £500,000 in return for changing her evidence.

He said: “I am 100 per cent certain that she had a plot to get money from me by tangling me up in proceedings.”

The 51-year-old Bolton entrepreneur denies five charges, including attempted rape, sexual assault, making a threat to kill and false imprisonment.

The attack is alleged to have taken place on Sunday, August 17, last year in the kitchen of Atherton’s mansion in Victoria Road, Heaton.

The jury were yesterday shown CCTV footage of the alleged incident for the second time, while Atherton explained, step by step, what he was doing.

He claims he had paid the woman for rough sex and did not think he had done anything wrong.

The case continues.