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Nigerian student is CLEARED of raping drunk shop assistant who claimed she thought she was having sex with his white friend .Sam Obeghe was having sex with woman at flat after night out in Bolton .But he stopped when she unexpectedly cried the name of his friend Zack .Woman ran fingers through his hair, realising she was with wrong man .Her mother alerted police but Mr Obeghe has now been acquitted of rape A Nigerian student was falsely accused of rape by a 21-year-old shop assistant who claimed she drunkenly thought she was having sex with his white friend, a court heard yesterday. Sam Obeghe, 24, was having sex with the woman at his flat at the end of a drunken night out in Bolton, Greater Manchester, only to stop when she unexpectedly cried the name of his 22-year-old friend Zack Garrigan. As he did so, the woman, who had earlier been having sex with Mr Garrigan at the flat in nearby Heaton, ran her fingers through Mr Obeghe’s hair and realised she was with the wrong man. She stormed out in hysterics, her mother alerted police and within three hours of the encounter, University of Salford economics student Mr Obeghe was arrested in his pyjamas. He was ordered to face court and endured a 17-month wait until a trial, but was unanimously acquitted of rape by a jury at Bolton Crown Court after just 27 minutes of deliberation. During the trial the woman said the bedroom was ‘pitch black’ and she couldn’t see anything, despite Nigerian-born Mr Obeghe being of a different ethnicity and having various different features to white Mr Garrigan. The incident occurred on December 5, 2014 when the woman had got drunk while out with a friend. The two women met Mr Obeghe and Mr Garrigan in the Vogue bar in Bolton and in the early hours of the morning the four of them plus another man went to the student’s flat. Mr Obeghe, who had not been drinking, gave the party a lift in his BMW but once they got back the woman and Mr Garrigan began kissing and headed into the defendant’s bedroom for sex. The woman said she and Mr Garrigan did not have intercourse and she fell asleep whilst he went into the lounge to try to find some Viagra. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3586478/Shop-assistant-falsely-accused-Nigerian-student-rape-claiming-drunkenly-thought-having-sex-white-friend.html#comments Sigh. How did this even make it to court. Disgusting that the guys involved have their face in the papers and the accuser isn't lol @ buying viagra at 21. The girl must have been dusty.