THE wife of a teacher who is accused of raping a former student has described to the Old Bailey the moment she discovered the alleged victim in their home.

Mohammed Akorley aged 42 of Hengrave Road, Honor Oak, is charged with eight counts of rape and one of indecency with a child.

Yesterday the court heard Akorley abused the girl who is now 23 but cannot be named for legal reasons, from the age of 11 and that their relationship continued until she was 18.

He is charged with offences that took place between January 1999 and January 2005, when the complainant turned 16.

Ayesha Akorley told jurors that in around 2007 or 2008 her and Mohammed Akorley were having problems so she moved out of the flat, but would go there with their children in the mornings before dropping them to school.

She described one such occasion: "I came and I knocked the door, I knocked and I knocked. I got worried that he [Mohammed Akorley] wasn't answering the door so I looked through the letter box.

"I saw somebody of mixed race complexion and I said 'oh, you have got a mixed race girl, that is why you don't want me'."

She added: "I went to my neighbour to give me access to go into the house through the back garden.

"I saw Mohammed standing in the back garden and somebody else standing at the back where the shed is with a hoody on top.

"So I ran and tried to stop the person but the person ran away.

"At that time I didn't know, but I later on I came to know, it was the complainant."

Mrs Akorley was also a teaching assistant at the school the complainant attended.

She described having seen her at her home on two other occasions-after her first child was born and at a time the alleged victim attended her home to be converted to Islam.

Akorley denies all the charges and the trial continues.