A man has pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court to the religiously aggravated rape and assault of a Sikh woman in Walsall.
John Ashby, 32, is accused of carrying out a religiously aggravated rape on a stranger.
During his trial today, the proceedings were disrupted when a member of the public walked up to the dock and shouted verbal abuse.
Jurors saw the man confront Ashby, who previously denied raping the Sikh woman he wrongly believed was a Muslim, on the second day of his trial.
Prosecutors allege Ashby, of no fixed abode, attacked the victim in Walsall in October after following her off a bus and entering her home while she was upstairs.
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Extracts from body-worn police footage showing the woman, who cannot be identified, were played to a jury of six men and six women on Tuesday.
In the footage, the victim was comforted by a female officer and said her attacker had called her a ‘bloody Muslim bitch’.
The woman, said by witnesses to have been hysterical while repeatedly screaming, told police she had been raped in a bathroom by the intruder, who was armed with a piece of wood and claimed to be a ‘British master’.
In a video interview played to the court, the complainant told police: ‘He had a stick in his hand. I said ‘who are you’ and I started screaming.
‘He switched off the light. He said, ‘I just want fun with you’. He said ‘you are a f****** Muslim bitch, I said I am not a Muslim, I am a Sikh.’
As the video interview was being played to the jury, a man left the public gallery and approached the glass-fronted dock and swore at Ashby.
The man told Ashby, ‘You need to sort your shit out.’
Ashby further denies intentional strangulation, robbery and religiously aggravated assault.
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