A convicted serial rapist is standing trial again, after three more alleged victims reported sex attacks dating back 24 years.

Brian Witty, 42, of Twickenham Road, Teddington, faces three counts of rape of three women, who are not known to each other, and were all 19 years old at the time of the alleged attacks.

Kingston Crown Court heard the women, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, contacted police last year after they read reports of Witty’s conviction of serious sex offences in the press.

Prosecuting, Edmund Gritt said each of the three women described Witty as man who could be charming but was also volatile, violent, and would take sex by force if it was not given willingly.

The first of the rape charges was alleged to have happened 24 years ago, in October 1989, when Witty tracked down a former acquaintance at her university halls.

The court heard Witty attacked the girl in her bedroom, sat on her, put his hands around her neck and raped her, leaving her with bruised eyes, a bleeding lip and nose and a sore neck.

Mr Gritt said: “He repeatedly punched her, leaving her with bruising.

“She was terrified. She kept crying. There was no way this defendant could have thought she consented to have sex with him.”

The court heard at the time the alleged victim said Witty had assaulted her but did not tell anyone about the rape until last year because she felt ashamed.

It was also alleged that in December 1997 Witty raped another girl who was sleeping on the sofa in the same house he was staying in.

Mr Gritt told the court Witty went downstairs and woke the 19-year-old in the middle of the night, held his hand over her mouth to stifle her screams and raped her.

He said: “He was much stronger than her. She was frozen with fear.”

The court heard days later Witty was introduced to another girl at a New Year’s Eve party in London who was struggling to get a taxi. He said she could go home with him, it was alleged.

The court heard the 19-year-old told Witty she would not sleep with him but when they arrived at his Teddington flat he pushed her face down on his bed and raped her.

Mr Gritt said: “She thought he seemed the perfect gentleman. She felt very comfortable in his company. Nonetheless she repeated her ground rules of no sex.

“She had said no and had not wanted sex. His answer was ‘well you shouldn’t have come home with me’.”

Witty denies three counts of rape and the defence is yet to speak. The trial is expected to last three weeks.