RIO IN COURT
This from the Guardian
Ferdinand admitted that he and his then-Leeds United teammate Michael Duberry accepted a lift from a man called Reds he knew from the nightclub to a hotel along with two girls.
Asked by prosecutor Richard Newberry: "Reds was getting these girls for you, wasn't he?"
Ferdinand replied: "No. Not at all."
The defender was giving evidence in the defence of 33-year-old Martin Luther King of Leeds, who denies attempting to rape, indecently assault and kidnap a 22-year-old woman.
The alleged victim has told the court she was abducted after leaving the Hi Fi Club in Leeds city centre and driven to a lane in the city where she claims to have been assaulted at gunpoint by King.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also told the court that, while she was in the club, Duberry pushed his hand up her skirt and she slapped him.
She said Ferdinand then threatened her, saying: "If I don't slap you up I'll get someone else to."
Today the England defender said he had never met the woman.
Ferdinand said he had been drinking wine, vodka with Red Bull and Baileys but he could not remember exactly how much, but denied a suggestion he had been on a "drinking spree".
The prosecutor also questioned Ferdinand about the "boisterous" behaviour of his group outside the nightclub and asked him whether he should have been better behaved because it was just weeks after a prominent trial involving his Leeds team-mates Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate.
Ferdinand replied: "I was well aware of my behaviour in the public eye. I wasn't drunk. I knew what I was doing."