The court heard the man, who is now 28, was 18 when he met Mr Hall in Newcastle shortly after moving to the city.
After drinking together, Mr Hall took the man back to his house where he put a film on pulled from a cabinet of DVDs, the court heard.
The pair began to kiss but Mr Hall became “more forceful” and started pulling the teenager’s clothes off, the man said.
He said he told Mr Hall “no” multiple times but it made no difference, with the man saying he felt “weak and vulnerable” as Mr Hall went on to rape him.
Mr Hall then drove him back into Newcastle, with the man saying he felt in “shock”.
He said he continued to message Mr Hall afterwards to “keep the peace” but he had no intention of seeing him again.
The court heard the man was sentenced to eight weeks in a youth detention centre for driving offences shortly after, and it was while incarcerated that a standard medical test revealed he was HIV positive.
When asked by prosecutor Kama Melly KC how he felt on receiving the diagnosis, the man said: “I thought it was a death sentence.”
He said he was young and knew very little about it, having never had any sexually transmitted disease, with the first question he asked the nurse being “am I going to die”.
The man said he felt “weak” and “disgusted”, adding he began showering all the time to try and “wash it away”.
He said at the time of the diagnosis he felt his life had “come to a standstill”, but it was something he had “learned to live with” and he now took daily medication and had regular check ups.
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