A jury will be sent out to deliver their verdict today on a man accused of raping his cousin.

The accused stuck to his story yesterday, telling his trial he had been asleep in his bedroom and had been thinking of his girlfriend when he rolled over and was partially on top of the sleeping woman, who then woke up and pushed him off before fleeing to her own room.

The pair had been watching TV together earlier.

The 29-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, wrote a letter to his cousin in which he had apologised profusely but, he told the court, they were both to blame for the incident.

The problem was that she had been asleep in his room, he said.

?I ended up falling asleep. The problem was when we both awoke and she was still in my room, in my bed when she should have gone to her room.?

Earlier he said it was not normal for her to be there but he had assumed that she would leave when she woke up.

?I was tired and drunk and just wanted to go to my bed,? he said.

He told the court he turned the lights off and locked the door.

Earlier, he had said he had been dreaming about his girlfriend when he rolled over on top of the woman.

But yesterday he said: ?That was an assumption I came to when I gave my previous statement to the Police, because when I was draped over someone, I initially thought it was my girlfriend who would normally be in my bed.?

Prosecutor Graveney Bannister said: ?I suggest you were propped on your hands over her, touching her by the waist because you intended to assault her but did not want to alert her.?

The alleged victim had earlier told the court he had been raping her as she awoke but the accused denied any sexual contact, any intention of sexual contact and said his pants had never come off.

He denied ever having his penis out.

Mr Bannister said: ?You were feeling horny, weren?t you? In Bermudian parlance, your balls were blue??

The accused denied it all. He had said he had been drunk and high but denied not knowing what he was doing.

Yesterday, the Crown zeroed in on inconsistencies in statements given by the defendant to Police and then in the trial.

The man told the court that he was wearing a long vest and boxer shorts that evening, however, he had told Police he had been wearing a t-shirt.

Other inconsistencies included his recollection of how he had been positioned when he awoke, with more details coming during the case which had not been said in the statement.

He said he could remember more today about the December, 2001 incident than when he was interviewed by Police in March last year.

The trial continues today before Assistant Supreme Court Justice Carlisle Greaves.