Top Boy actor Micheal Ward raped woman in car, court told

A court has heard how award-winning actor Micheal Ward allegedly raped and sexually assaulted a woman shortly after meeting her in a bar in London in 2023. The 28-year-old actor - known for his starring roles in the film Blue Story and Netflix series Top Boy - is accused of carrying out the alleged attack in a car. In a police interview played to jurors on the first day of his trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Monday, the woman said she felt "numb" and "scared" during the alleged assaults, adding that she remembered "wanting it all to be over". He denies two charges of rape and three counts of sexual assault, and has said all sexual activity between the pair was consensual. The alleged victim said she met the actor for the first time at a party at a nightclub in north-east London. Jurors were told she knew Ward had been in films and on TV and felt flattered when he asked for her Snapchat handle. She was asked to accompany him to the back of his friend's Mercedes, and they kissed and the woman consented to him touching her intimately, the trial heard. The court heard the actor then invited the victim and her friends to an afterparty at a different location. It was in a car near that second party where it's claimed the actor raped and sexually assaulted the woman. …