TWO POLISH men were falsely accused of rape by a North Devon woman who did not want her boyfriend to find out about their threesome, it was claimed at Exeter Crown Court.

The incident was alleged to have taken place at Capstone in Ilfracombe, in 2007 — on the same night that students from Ilfracombe Arts College were enjoying their School Prom at the nearby Landmark Theatre.

Chloe Dolton, now 22, told police that the men grabbed her and repeatedly raped her on Capstone Point, as she walked home from a party in Rupertswood Terrace.

But when Robert Jaborski and Grzegorz Bukowski were arrested, they told police that Dolton approached them for consensual sex.

A jury was told that CCTV and mobile phone records backed the men's account, rather than Dolton's.

Officers also discovered a document on her computer from a month before the incident, entitled The Life of Chloe Dolton, which said: "I should be out having fun with every boy I meet, having sex with whoever I like."

Dolton, of Barton Lane, Braunton, pleaded not guilty to intending to pervert the course of justice, when her trial began on Monday.

Prosecutor Joanna Martin said Dolton told police she had been raped, in the early hours of June 30, 2007.

She had earlier told a neighbour and then her boyfriend who drove her back to the scene and discovered two condoms which he handed to police.

Mr Jaborski and Mr Bukowski were two friends from Poland who were living in Swindon and had visited Ilfracombe that night.

Dolton, who was living in Grenville Road at the time, said the pair grabbed her, as she walked home from the party.

She told police that she was walking up to Capstone Point and was near a stone shelter on the cliff.

"She told them that two foreign men grabbed her and raped her in the bus shelter," said the prosecutor. "She had screamed and tried to push them off but failed."

Dolton said she later managed to escape onto Wildersmouth Beach.

Both men were arrested the next month and interviewed separately.

They each said she had approached them in a car park, after they had been drinking at Jaxx nightclub.

She had been friendly, chatty and had led Mr Bukowski to Capstone Point, after he put his arm around her.

They kissed and had consensual sex, while Mr Jaborksi was left behind in the car park.

The two men then described all three of them going for a further walk together, before Dolton had sex again with Mr Bukowski and she then performed a sex act with his friend, before they all left.

When police examined CCTV, it showed Dolton in the car park, then walking away with Mr Bukowski while his friend waited in the car park.

The prosecutor said that Dolton had also received phone calls from her boyfriend, around the times that the men had described.

Miss Martin told the jury about Dolton's piece of writing a month before the incident, which said: "I'm having a crisis. I can't stand being in this relationship. I'm so bored of my life."

The writing mentioned a man she wanted to have sex with and added: "I'm such a hateful girl, such a selfish girl, let God forgive me."

Miss Martin said: "What she did was fulfil her fantasy of having sex with whoever she felt like because she was disinhibited by alcohol and had argued with her boyfriend. But once she did it, she couldn't cope with the shame."

The jury was told that Dolton insisted she was telling the truth, when questioned by police, and had stuck by her version of events.

The trial continues.