A vagrant begging for cash in Bolton town centre was brutally raped by a man who he thought was his Good Samaritan, a court heard.

Said Abshir Omar offered to get money from a cashpoint for his victim, but after withdrawing the notes, instead of immediately handing them over, he led the man to a back alley.

“The defendant masqueraded as a Good Samaritan, but his kindly disposition vanished when he took the man to discrete locations out of the view of members of the public where he used physical force against him,” Alaric Bassano, prosecuting, told a jury at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court.

Omar, aged 24, of Shepley Avenue, Bolton, is said to have spoken to his victim in “demeaning” terms before forcing him to commit sex acts on him and raping him.

Omar denies four counts of rape and one of assault, allegedly committed on January 23 this year.

Mr Bassano told the court how, within minutes of the attack finishing, the victim, who is in his late 40s, reported it to police. Omar, who was drunk, was arrested an hour later. Cash and Vaseline were found on him.

He initially refused to answer questions but after DNA evidence proved sexual activity had taken place, Omar claimed it had been consensual and that the victim had instigated sex, prostituting himself for money.

The alleged victim was on Bradshawgate begging on the evening of January 22 and, at 3.30am the next morning he spotted Omar.

He saw the defendant and asked him for spare change,” said Mr Bassano.

“The defendant replied that he would help him by withdrawing money from a cash point machine. Believing the defendant was a decent man, he accompanied him.”

The victim later told the police that he could not understand why Omar did not give him some of the £40 he withdrew from the NatWest immediately but, instead, led him to a quiet alleyway beside the Three Crowns pub.

There, Omar changed from appearing kind to being violent and abusive, grabbing the man’s head, forcing him to his knees and insisting he commit a sex act on him.

The man was “shocked and afraid” during the incident but complied.

“He could see what he thought was a knife sticking out of the defendant’s pocket. The apparent existence of this knife made him feel ‘s**t scared’,” said Mr Bassano.

Omar pulled his victim to his feet and led him to the back of the NatWest bank where he again forced him to his knees, telling him “Get down bitch” and repeated the sex act.

The defendant then led his victim to some land near the River Croal where he was made to perform the sex act a third time before Omar raped him.

“He knew he was going to be raped but felt powerless to stop it - he didn’t know whether anyone would hear or what the defendant’s response would have been,” said Mr Bassano.

Mr Bassano said that, at one stage, Omar fell over but his victim helped him to his feet again.

“He remarked to the police how he finds it odd that he should have helped the defendant in such circumstances,” he said.

After also being punched and grabbed by the throat, the victim managed to get away.

The rapes were not caught on CCTV but police did manage to obtain footage of Omar following his victim repeatedly hitting him over the back of the head.

“They are acts of gratuitous violence which support the man’s account and which reveal the defendant’s contempt for him,” said Mr Bassano.

The victim immediately told his girlfriend he had been raped and reported it to an officer on patrol in the town centre, who noticed that he appeared panicked and distressed and his voice was trembling.

Mr Bassano told the jury that the victim has a “chaotic and troubled lifestyle” and the crimes may invoke feelings of revulsion or sympathy but that they should put emotion aside and deal with the case objectively.

The trial continues.