Four women who accuse a grime star of rape and false imprisonment consented to the sexual activity with him, a jury has been told.

Andy Anokye, 32, who performs as Solo 45, is on trial at Bristol Crown Court, where he denies 31 charges, including 22 of rape and five of false imprisonment.

The musician, who grew up in the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham and had a flat in Bristol, insists the allegations relate to consensual sexual activity between him and the four complainants.

In the defence closing speech, Sally O'Neill QC said officers who initially investigated Anokye showed a "prejudicial lack of open-mindedness which corrupted this investigation from the outset".

She said failings in the disclosure process led to a previous trial in January 2019 being delayed, with a new team going "back to square one".

Ms O'Neill told jurors that a number of videos filmed by Anokye, some claimed by prosecutors to depict sexual offences, were "key to the case".

Police contacted three of the women featured in the footage, found on Anokye's mobile phones and laptop, after one woman alleged that she had been raped by him.

"None of them wanted to come forward, until they were told by the police that if they didn't say that what was on the videos was non-consensual, and support a prosecution, the videos could be used by the defence," Ms O'Neill said.

"In that scenario, the videos would be out there for all to see. They all knew what their behaviour would have looked like to anyone watching the videos.

"It is hardly surprising that in those circumstances, they caved and said it was non-consensual."

Ms O'Neill said the videos showed "rough, sometimes unpleasant but importantly, consensual, sexual activity" between Anokye and the four complainants.

"They didn't want to confront the reality of what they had been engaged in with the defendant," she told the jury.

She described the four complainants as "independent, adult women" who were operating on a "level playing field" with Anokye.

Ms O'Neill said the women, as well as a fifth woman who gave evidence against Anokye as a witness in the trial, were fans of the grime music he performed.

They had "full knowledge" of the type of sex Anokye liked to engage in, and agreed to participate in it, she told the jury.

"It is undoubtedly the case that some of the extreme behaviour in those films is his idea," she said.

"Just because he is directing the sex they had doesn't make it non-consensual.

"The fact that they may have been humouring him doesn't make it non-consensual - even if they were doing it reluctantly.

"This is not a court of morals.

"What we have watched may make some of us cringe, but it doesn't make it non-consensual."

During his evidence, Anokye referred to a "rape game" that he played, and spoke of dacryphilia, which is sexual arousal from tears.

Anokye was arrested in 2017 after a woman claimed she had been raped at his waterfront apartment in Bristol.

Following his arrest, police examined videos and images on his digital devices and contacted further women.

Anokye, from London, denies all the charges against him and the trial continues.