The 32-year-old defendant in a sexual assault case yesterday took the witness stand to deny the charges against him.

On Monday the 19-year-old complainant testified in Supreme Court that the Warwick man offered her a ride home on the evening of April 26 last year. She claims that he later sexually assaulted her.

But the defendant told the court how he had been flagged down by the complainant who was waiting at a bus stop at Middle Road, Warwick just before 11 p.m. He had been drinking at PHC Stadium.

"I went past the bus stop on Middle Road and someone called out to me,'' he said.

"I stopped and went back and saw (the complainant). We started talking about marijuana, and she told me `I feel like getting f***ked right up'.'' And after collecting a helmet from his home, the defendant picked up the complainant.

"My real intentions were to smoke a spliff,'' he told the court.

"She told me that she didn't feel like going home and said `Do you want me for the night?''' And when she suggested that the two go to Belmont, he said "that's not a good place'', and decided to take her to two different docks on Harbour Road.

"She said she didn't like it there, so we went to Belmont for her sake,'' he said.

The defendant said she asked him if he wanted to have sex with her.

And the defendant maintained that the complainant "was cool'', despite her own claims that she was "nervous and afraid'' at the time. He also disputed claims that she had asked to go home.

But when he told her she needed a "nice guy'' to take care of herself and her son, she took offence and said "Bermudian men are so tricky''.

And after asking where the spliff was, she allegedly got up and left, heading towards Middle Road.

"I had offered to take her home,'' the defendant said. "She has to be safe and that was my intention.'' The defendant denied claims that he made her touch his penis or grabbed her bottom.

And when the complainant and her cousin confronted him the following day, he said he rejected her allegations because his wife was present.

But the complainant disputed claims in court that she went with the defendant to smoke a spliff, admitting that she had already smoked marijuana earlier that day.

"I did not agree to go to Belmont,'' she said. "Why would I want to smoke a spliff? "I had already done it with my cousin earlier that day. This is Bermuda -- everybody does it.'' And she was offended by suggestions from defence counsel Kim Wilson that she had sold herself for drugs, saying: "I have never sold myself in my life. "I don't need to.'' She said she did not call the Police after the incident because she "was not in a frame of mind to call them''.

"Besides, I don't have a phone,'' she said.

The court also heard evidence from the stranger who took the complainant home on his friend's bike after the alleged incident.

He said she appeared "nervous and shaken'' when he first saw her near Middle Road and Spring Hill in Warwick.

But he said she was "very relaxed'' when they arrived at her house in Pembroke.

The case continues today before Puisne Judge Philip Storr.