Brock Andrew Delinecort pleads not guilty to rape, torture, assault

A young woman feared she would be killed when she was allegedly shot at, subjected to electric shocks and a series of other terrifying encounters at the hands of a rapist, a court has heard. *Distressing

Brock Delinecort appeared in the Bundaberg District Court.

A prosecutor has painted a chilling picture to a jury of how a young Bundaberg man allegedly held a gun to his former partner’s head, placed her in an electric dog collar, choked her to the point of passing out and repeatedly raped her.

But Brock Andrew Delinecort denies much of what he is accused of.

Instead, he has pleaded guilty in Bundaberg District Court to wilful damage and assault but not guilty to 12 other charges including two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm, three counts of strangulation in a domestic setting, three counts of rape and one count each of threatening violence, engaging in conduct to cause harm while armed, assault and torture.

Crown prosecutor Carla Ahern opened the trial on Tuesday by detailing the alleged events which are claimed to have occurred over several years while the pair was in and on and off again relationship.

The first allegedly involved Mr Delinecort using a gun to hit the complainant over the head, striking her in the face and chest, before she fell to the ground, and he kicked her in “the ribs several times.”

Later, he allegedly “jumped on top” of the complainant “straddled her body, leant forward and put his hands around her neck and squeezed.”

Ms Ahern told the court that on a separate occasion, Mr Delinecort allegedly went to the car where “he grabbed the complainant and dragged her to the ground.”

She said he allegedly punched and kicked the complainant in the ribs before he “smashed” her head against a metal toolbox.

He then allegedly grabbed her neck “with both hands and strangled her” and when she went to her car and drove away, he followed her.

He “pulled up beside her pointing his pistol at her” before he allegedly fired, Ms Ahern said

The court heard the complainant stopped and exited with her hands raised “fearing the defendant would kill her” and when a car paused momentarily at the scene, he listened to a police scanner to find out if officers had been called there before he “allowed the complainant to leave.”

The last string of alleged offending occurred on another day when Mr Delinecort asked the complainant to get out of her car.

The court heard the complainant tried to drive away however, Mr Delinecort “jumped on the bonnet of her car, used a torch to smash (the) windshield” – amounting to the guilty plea for wilful damage.

It also heard the complainant tried to shake Delinecort off before he allegedly climbed through a smashed window, got behind the complainant and “placed her in a chokehold,” which caused her to lose consciousness.

When the complainant regained consciousness, she was on the ground and Delinecort hit her in the face – leading to the guilty plea for assault.

The trial is expected to continue into next week at the Bundaberg Court House.

However, Ms Ahern said things escalated from there when he allegedly placed the complainant in his car.

“He remarked ‘I don’t give a f--- about you … the complainant feared she was going to be killed,’” Ms Ahern told the court, adding that the complainant jumped from the moving car and Mr Delinecort allegedly tackled her before dragging her back.

After driving again, MrDelinecort allegedly grabbed a dog's shock collar.

“The complainant screamed ‘no’, but the defendant tightened it around her neck … the defendant set the controller to the highest setting,” Ms Ahern alleged.

Mr Delinecort allegedly zapped the complainant several times, before tightening it causing “difficulty breathing” before he stopped the car, pulled his pants down and told the complainant to “get down.”

“One hand remained on the top of her head and the other holding the gun pointed to her head,” Ms Ahern alleged.

He then allegedly raped her.

Mr Delinecort allegedly allowed the complainant to stand before pushing her into the car with the gun pointed towards her head and raping her again “for some period of time” before driving and making calls.

“The defendant then wrapped the passenger side seat belt around her twice so she was unable to move,” Ms Ahern alleged.

The court heard Mr Delinecort then met a third person, who entered the back seat and they drove to the complainant’s car.

Once there, the third person allegedly drove the complainant's car into a tree.

The court heard during this time the complainant had been fading in and out of consciousness.

Mr Delinecort allegedly pulled over, before taking the complainant out of the passenger side.

“He stood behind her and asked her to take her pants down,” Ms Ahern alleged.

She said Mr Delinecort raped the complainant for “five to six minutes.”

Mr Delinecort’s legal team chose not to submit an opening statement.

The trial continues.