Swedish businessman accused of rape in Hong Kong says Nepalese domestic helper initiated sex
- Patrik Tobias Ekstrom, 36, tells court she approached him in bed three times between July and October 2022
A Swedish businessman accused of raping his helper in his Hong Kong home two years ago has told a court he had intercourse with her twice before the alleged crime, saying she initiated the earlier encounters.
Patrik Tobias Ekstrom, 36, told the seven-member jury in the High Court on Tuesday the helper had come to his bed and initiated sex with him three times between July and October 2022.
The defendant has denied a count of rape and another of buggery without consent in connection with an encounter in October that year.
Ekstrom told the court from the witness box that before the alleged rape, the helper came to his room twice in July while he was watching an “erotic film”.
This was during a period in which his wife had taken their three children back to her home country of Japan, he added.
The defendant said he did not ask the helper, who was of Nepalese descent, to leave the room on the first occasion and that he was receptive to the sexual invitation as a “man with human desire”.
