A MOTHER-OF-TWO has told a court how accused rapist Geoffrey Holyoake threatened to bury her in a graveyard next to his home.

The 40-year-old told Bristol Crown Court that Holyoake repeatedly threatened to put her in plot 58, a reference to the graveyard next door to his home in Vallis Road, Frome.

Holyoake, 53, allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted three women he met around Trowbridge.

The court was told last week how Holyoake took the women back to his home, dressed up in a variety of costumes, including a surgeon's outfit and PVC underwear, and assaulted the women.

The third alleged victim told the court on Tuesday she met Holyoake at Zak's in Trowbridge, now The Malthouse.

She went to his house after Holyoake offered her a drink.

When she arrived he made her a cup of coffee which made her feel wobbly and not with it at all.

She fell asleep, woke up partially naked and saw Holyoake semi-undressed.

"He was wearing a dressing gown and he had a black thong on," she said.

She described waking up later with Holyoake lying naked behind her.

"I sensed that he was there. He had his fingers on my neck. I didn't have my jeans or tee shirt on.

"I could feel him near me. He was naked with his fingers on the back of my neck pushing towards me in a sexual way."

Holyoake also asked the woman to tie him up but she refused.

"I can remember asking him what the hell is going on, but he didn't answer me."

But she told the jury all the events were hazy and could not even remember the year the alleged crime took place.

Later that evening Holyoake drove her back to Trowbridge and dropped her off outside her home.

Defence barrister Mark Evans QC said the woman had been a good friend of Holyoake but the pair had fallen out.

"You formed a grudge as a result of the breakdown in the relationship," he said. "I suggest that you hit back at him when people came looking for accounts about him."

Last week the defence quizzed the

second witness in the case about her background. The court heard she used to belong to a devil-worshipping group and frequently took the drug Rohypnol.

Mr Evans also alleged the victim had made up the crimes she described after reading a book called Forbidden Flowers.

But she denied this, maintaining her claim that Holyoake had drugged and raped her.

Holyoake denies three counts of false imprisonment, three counts of administering a noxious substance, five counts of indecent assault, one count of rape and two counts of attempted rape against three different women. He also denies two counts of possession with intent to supply cannabis and amphetamines.

The case continues.