Holly Willoughby made a shocking announcement earlier this week confirming she would be stepping down from her hosting duties on This Morning after 14 years of presenting the flagship programme.
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An alleged rapist has claimed that he was 'robbed' by two prostitutes after meeting them on the street. Mohammed Nadeem Hussain, 26, denies raping one woman and attempting to rape another.
He told jurors that felt he was being 'robbed' by the pair after he handed over money for sex. Mr Hussain alleged that one attacked him before he hit her 'eight or nine times'.
Prosecutors have alleged that Mr Hussain 'delighted in the degrading and humiliating way that he treated' the women, who feared they were 'about to be murdered'. Jurors have been told that both allege that they were attacked by Mr Hussain in Cheetham Hill last summer.
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Giving evidence in his defence as the trial entered a second week, Mr Hussain said he left his flat in the early hours and bought some cigarettes. He said a woman, known as Woman A, approached him and asked if he was 'looking for custom'.
"I asked 'what does that mean?," he told the jury, under questioning from his barrister Denise Fitzpatrick. Mr Hussain said that she explained she was offering sex for money.
He said: "At first I was startled, because it was just a random person that came over to me. But after speaking more I asked how much."
He said she agreed to perform oral sex on him for £20, before they went to a secluded area on a nearby car park. Mr Hussain said the woman stopped performing oral sex at one point.
"She basically tried to run away," he said. "It's not the fact that she stopped, it's the fact that obviously I gave her £20. I know how scumbag it might seem but I gave her £20 in return for something.
"I felt like I had just been robbed. I tried
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