The trial heard how Jason King sent a picture of his tender private parts to the woman who claimed he raped her in her bedroom as part of an angry exchange of text messages the morning after their encounter.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard that in her reply the 43-year-old said: "I tried to tell you I wasn't wanting it. You are a beast."

She also told him: "I don't know about you but that wasn't my idea of good sex."

She said she was in agony, covered in bruises and had a black eye.

King, 29, of Steele Avenue, Mayfield, Dalkeith, also wrote a letter after he was questioned by police, pleading with the woman to drop her rape allegation.

In it he said she had bitten him and he hit her to try to get her off.
"That may explain the black eye. I know I was rough but you were just as rough," the letter read.

The letter also described in graphic detail the sex acts King says they performed and insists that he would have "stopped and gone home" if the woman really hadn't wanted sex. He said both of them were drunk.

The letter, photo and text messages were shown to jurors .

They also heard the 43-year-old woman's account of the night in September 2006 when King came to her Edinburgh home.

Giving her evidence from behind screens she said King had attacked her after they had drunk wine, whisky and smoked a couple of joints.

She said: "There was no kissing, cuddling. He didn't put his arm round me. There was no sweet talking, nothing at all like that."

She said he ignored her protests.

In court he denied the rape charge. He did not give evidence but the court heard a tape-recording of his question and answer session with detectives in which he claimed the woman was consenting.

It was just "rough sex" he said, although perhaps rougher than usual.

"She was waking up in the morning, had a black eye and put two and two together and made five," he told the interviewing officers.

When asked by defence advocate David Nicholson whether she had screamed for help, because her teenage son might have been in the house, the woman said: "At the time there was not much screaming going on because there was so much fighting."

She told police she had bitten King and dug her nails into his privates.

A doctor said the marks on King – among 25 injuries listed when he was examined in a police station – might have been caused by nails or teeth.

The judge told jurors they had been given an insight into what may – or may not – happen behind closed shutters after they delivered their verdict of not proven