A NIGHTCLUB boss struggled with police and had to be handcuffed after he attempted to flush cocaine down a sink at his home, a court heard.

Dramatic details of the arrest of Bushwackers and Sin owner Darren Pinches at his home were revealed at his trial at Warwick Crown Court earlier today.

The 52-year old of Bromyard Road, Worcester, denies administering a substance (cocaine) with intent to stupefy or overpower the complainant to enable him to engage in sexual activity and a sexual assault against the same woman, then 20, on January 1 last year.

He further denies possession of a class A drug (cocaine) on January 13 when police arrived at his home in Berkley Gardens, Fernhill Heath to arrest him.

Pinches denies supplying cocaine to a second woman between February 9 and 15 2016 and offering to supply cocaine to a third between September 3 and 5, 2015.

Prosecution witness PC James Wood said he attended Pinches’s home in Fernhill Heath near Worcester at around 7.44am on January 13 last year.

The officer told the jury there was an emergency call over the radio and he ran inside where he heard shouting from upstairs and saw a struggle between Pinches and other officers in the bathroom. Ben Aina QC, prosecuting, said: “As a result of the struggle did you enter the bathroom and handcuff Mr Pinches?”

“Yes, I assisted” the officer said. As a result of talking to other officers he went to the bathroom sink and found two ripped snap bags with traces of a white powder later identified as cocaine which he placed in an evidence bag. He told the jury he handed the bag to the exhibits officer at around 7.53am.

PC Wood said he made a statement about what happened the same day as the arrest.

Under cross-examination from Michael Burrows QC the officer said he had been wearing protective gloves when he handled the cocaine bags.

As previously reported the cocaine found at the home of Pinches has been linked forensically to traces found on a speaker in the private storeroom on the first floor of Bushwackers where one of the complainants says the defendant sexually assaulted after forcing her to ingest cocaine.

The officer acknowledged that he had seized ‘large’ sums of money from the defendant’s home including £150 from a jacket pocket and another sum in a clear bag by the front door.

He also acknowledged that he was part of the team that attended Bushwackers later that day but said he had made no reference to this in his notebook and that there was ‘no record’ of his attendance at the nightclub.

A friend of the alleged sexual assault victim was also called as a witness.

The woman said she had seen the complainant on New Year’s Day last year, describing her makeup as ‘smudged’ and saying she had been ‘scared’, ‘on edge’ and ‘crying’.

The complainant told her that another friend had barricaded her in a room with Pinches.

The complainant was asked in re-examination what state she was in after the alleged sexual sexual assault by Pinches in a private storeroom in Bushwackers on New Year’s Day.

She said her makeup had been all over her face because she had been crying.

The previous day she told the jury she left her high heeled shoes at the club when she fled in the early hours.

She says Pinches placed a bag of cocaine over her nose, forcing her to inhale.

The woman then says Pinches ‘yanked’ down her body suit, exposing her breasts before kissing them as she sat in an dirty, cream-coloured armchair.

The woman described Pinches kneeling in front of her as she was sexually assaulted as she said ‘no, no I don’t want to’.

She said she kept trying to close her legs but Pinches ‘kept opening them’ and pushed his thumb into her private parts over her clothing.

Her allegation is that he then took off his boxer shorts and trousers and stood over her with his private parts at the same level as her head.

She said her mother had been ‘angry’ when she told her what she alleges Pinches did to her and that she no longer spoke to the former friend who had left her alone with him in the room. “Why didn’t you speak to her?” said prosecutor Ben Aina QC. “Because of what she had done. She left me” the woman said. She was asked what happened when her friend left. “I got sexually assaulted” she replied.

The woman also responded to two videos which showed her laughing later on New Year’s Day after the alleged attack had taken place.

She said: “I was okay. They (her friends) were cheering me up.” She also said the videos showed her makeup all over her face and when asked by the prosecutor what had caused this the woman, now 22, responded: “I was crying.”

The trial continues.