As drunken encounters, it was never going to end happily every after.
But for college student Sam Obeghe life was no bed of roses either when the woman he had sex with accused him of rape - claiming she thought she had been sleeping with one of his friends.
Mr Obeghe, 24, had been having intercourse with the 21 year old shop assistant at his own apartment at the end of a drunken night out - only to stop when she unexpectedly cried the name of his friend Zack Garrigan.
As he did so, the woman - who had earlier been drunkenly romping with 22-year old Mr Garrigan in the flat - ran her fingers through Mr Obeghe hair and realised she was with the wrong man.
She stormed out in hysterics, police were alerted and within three hours of the sexual encounter Mr Obeghe, an economics student at University of Salford, Greater Manchester was arrested in his pyjamas.
He was ordered to face court and endured a 17 month wait before he faced a trial.
Last week Mr Obeghe, now 26, fought back tears as the jury of five women and seven men at Bolton Crown Court unanimously acquitted him of rape after just 27 minutes deliberation.
During the trial the woman said the bedroom was ''pitch black'' and she couldn't see anything, despite Nigerian-born Mr Obeghe being of different ethnicity to Mr Garrigan who is white. The two men also have different features and a different voice.
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