A 27 YEAR old man has gone on trial for a terrifying rape after his arrest for a minor offence provided DNA evidence.

Nasar Mohammed is accused of taking part in the sex attack eight years ago, when a young woman was lured to a caravan in a Holly Hall industrial estate and threatened with a blowtorch.

Mohammed, of Barn Close, Lye, who has pleaded not guilty to one charge of rape, initially denied involvement in the attack but then changed his story, saying the woman consented to sex.

At Wolverhampton Crown Court , Denis Desmond, prosecuting, said the chances of the same sample being provided by another person were "a billion to one."

Mr Desmond maintained Mohammed was one of six men who raped and indecently assaulted their frightened victim after she was held prisoner in the caravan, in October 2002.

The four man-eight woman jury heard a DNA sample was found on the woman when she was examined by forensic scientists but there was no match on the national database.

Mr Desmond added in July 2008 Mohammed was arrested on suspicion of threatening behaviour and, although he was never charged, officers took a DNA sample.

He said: "That swab was sent off and in due course it provided a hit, it matched the DNA sample taken by police after the gang rape years earlier."

Mohammed was questioned and he first told officers he had not been anywhere near the caravan and had not had sex with anyone.

He told the officers he was being "100 per cent honest" but that was a pack of lies, maintained Mr Desmond, who told the jury police were also able to trace a telephone call from the caravan to a telephone owned at the time by Mohammed.

Then, three months later, in September last year, Mohammed admitted to police he did have sex with the woman but he stressed it was with her consent.

Mr Desmond said five other men arrested after the incident had appeared before Wolverhampton Crown Court in May 2003 and they had been jailed for offences including rape, false imprisonment and indecent assault.

He said the woman was brutally raped by a number of men and told she would end up in a ditch unless she did as she was told.

The prosecution allege Mohammed was the last man to turn up at the caravan and he raped the woman who was "terrified and traumatised" and ignored her pleas for help.

Mr Desmond told the jury the fact that five other men had been jailed for their part in the offence proved conclusively that the girl really had been held against her will because they had all pleaded guilty to their part in the incident.

The trial continues.