GoPro rape accusation: Video allegedly shows men having sex with 16-year-old
A TEEN learned she had been gang-raped by a group of men including Tristan Carlyle-Watson (pictured) when police uncovered footage on a GoPro camera six weeks later, a court heard.
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A TEENAGER found out she had been gang-raped at a house party when police uncovered footage of the assaults on a GoPro camera six weeks later, a Sydney jury has been told.
The 17-minute-long video allegedly shows a group of men having sex with the 16-year-old in a bedroom at a party in May 2015, prosecutor Sharon Harris said today.
“One by one, we’ll all get a f***,” one man can be heard saying in the video, according to the prosecutor in her opening address at the Downing Centre District Court.
Kurt Stevenson, 26, Andrew Waters, 24, and Tristan Carlyle-Watson, 26, have each pleaded not guilty to multiple offences including aggravated sexual assault in company and inflicting actual bodily harm.
The jury was told the girl was invited to a house party in St Clair in Sydney’s west after friending Carlyle-Watson on Facebook.
She asked him “to take care of her” because she didn’t know anyone.
At the party she smoked cannabis and drank alcohol to the point where she wasn’t able to consent to sexual intercourse, Ms Harris said.
The girl has no recollection of what unfolded other than waking up in bed with Carlyle-Watson allegedly forcing his penis into her mouth, she said.
She became “upset” when police officers tracked her down and told her what had happened in the video, which shows a group of men having sex with her “sometimes ... simultaneously, sometimes taking turns,” Ms Harris said.
The teen can be heard saying she’s tired and wants to sleep before one man says “I’ll get this f***ing party started, c***.”
Weaving pig Latin into their conversations, one of the men says “don’t you ilmfay (film) me... I can’t be going to ourtcay (court)...”
In his opening address, Stevenson’s lawyer Michael Smith said his client had consensual sex with the girl, had no idea it was being filmed and on numerous occasions told the others to get out.
“Do not watch a two-dimensional, poor-quality video and make your minds up about this case,” he said.
Waters’ lawyer Peter Little said there was an issue of consent and the complainant can be seen co-operating.
Carlyle-Watson’s lawyer Paul Glissan also said she is “actively participating in the sex”.
The trial continues.