THREE men filmed themselves sexually assaulting a woman who was lying on a sofa “unconscious or certainly very close to it”, a court was told.

Jurors at Oxford Crown Court yesterday heard that the woman had passed out after drinking with the trio at a flat in East Oxford last November.

Neil Moore, prosecuting, said two mobile-phone videos and one still image captured the attacks.

Mohammed Shahjahan, 27, denies charges of rape and assault by penetration and Feizal Ali, 25, denies a charge of assault by penetration.

Opening the case, Mr Moore said the woman knew the men and had been invited round for a “social evening”.

He said: “That night, something happened which caused her to become so intoxicated as to pass out.

“She certainly lost her capacity to consent to sexual acts.

“Nevertheless, in such a state, the defendants sexually assaulted her.”

He added: “The reason why we know that these events took place is because Nicholas Jones took some video footage of the first sexual assault taking place and took a still photograph of the second.”

In a video of the woman’s police interview, which was played to the jury, she said she remembered drinking “three vodka and Red Bulls”.

However, she said that such an amount would not normally “do anything to me”.

The next thing she recalled was waking up fully clothed on a bed in the flat and leaving to head home before daybreak.

Two weeks later, the woman was shown the videos and photo by Jones and she went to the police.

She said: “When I watched the video footage I don’t remember nothing of that.

“I thought I just got drunk and they put me in bed. I was shocked. I couldn’t believe it.”

Mr Moore said Shahjahan, of Slaymaker Close, Headington, and Ali, of Howard Street, made various lewd comments on the videos and, with Jones, sent and received text messages about the incidents.

He said Shahjahan’s tone in the footage was “one of sexual aggression and dominance” and that the still photo of the later incident showed him raping the woman.

Describing the first incident, Mr Moore said the victim was “unconscious or certainly very close to it” as she lay “crumpled and dishevelled” on the sofa.

The case continues.