A Dutchman accused of raping his ex-girlfriend this afternoon presented a magistrate with a compendium of 1,300 ‘hot’ photographs that the woman had sent him throughout their five-month relationship.

He told Magistrate Aaron Bugeja that the pictures, which included close-up shots of her vagina and of her nude body in different positions, were sent to him by email at the same time that she was alleging he had raped her several times.

The woman is alleging that the man raped her repeatedly for hours on end and on an almost daily basis. He is facing criminal proceedings over these claims.

Magistrate Bugeja is presiding over challenge proceedings the man filed against the police, challenging them to prosecute the woman for lying about him and filing false reports. There is a ban on the publication of her name.

Johan Stellingwerf, a 33-year-old Dutch man, is requesting the police to prosecute the complainant on the basis of four criminal complaints filed against her between November 2013 and August last year.

He gave the magistrate a file with different coloured folders containing the photographs and split into the various trips abroad and the time they were together in Malta.

Mr Stellingwerf also exhibited other pictures of her vagina that she had sent to a Spanish man in Malta whilst he (Mr Stellingwerf) was on a business trip abroad. In reply to a question by the magistrate, Mr Stellingwerf said he had taken these photographs from her phone.

He described the relationship as a “happy” one, in which the woman never complained.

He explained how he arrived in Malta in March 2013 and met the woman in Paceville. She asked him if he wanted to be her husband for the night and then took him to her house in Marsa where they had consensual sex.

They began dating in May and were in “an exciting relationship”, he said as he added that he still had feelings for the woman who is accusing him of raping her.

Mr Stellingwerf questioned whether it made sense that a woman who claimed she had been raped several times would travel to Holland to visit and stay with the person who she is claiming had raped her.

The case continues in July.

Lawyer Jason Grima is appearing for Mr Stellingwerf.