Angelo Dellosa, James Delinicolis: Video analysed in police sex assault
Police are poring through WhatsApp videos following the arrest of two Sydney police officers, Angelo Dellosa and James Delinicolis, who allegedly tried to sexually assault a schoolgirl.
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Investigators are poring through WhatsApp videos following the arrest of two Sydney police officers who allegedly tried to sexually assault a schoolgirl.
Angelo Dellosa, 30, and James Delinicolis, 29, were mentioned in Downing Centre Local Court on Thursday after both being charged with multiple offences including aggravated sexual assault in company over the incident in March.
Prosecutors have alleged Delinicolis attempted to have non-consensual anal sex with the 17-year-old while Dellosa pinned her down in a room at the Ramada Hotel in Cabramatta.
Defence lawyers for the pair told the court prosecutors were still making further inquiries into the case including sifting through WhatsApp videos but 2000 pages of material had already been handed over.
Prosecutors said transcripts and statements still needed to be obtained before the case could progress.
An exasperated Chief Magistrate Judge Graeme Henson was left unimpressed about the delay and said the matter should have been more progressed through the court system by now.
“What is so complex about these proceedings? … what a farce, it really is,” the judge said.
Delinicolis’ lawyer said he thought his client had been excused from attending court so he wasn’t there, while Dellosa attended in person dressed in a suit and said “I’m innocent” when he left.
They both remain on bail and the matter will return to court in November.
A court was previously told Delinicolis had met the girl when he was on duty and she was in her school uniform before they met up again in the hotel room.
Crown prosecutor Sally Stuart previously told the court Delinicolis allegedly attempted to have non-consensual anal sex with the girl while Dellosa held her down.
“She made it extremely clear and said no several times and was held down against her will by the co-accused (Dellosa),” Ms Stuart said.
“Her lack of consent was made very clear.”
Ms Stuart told the court the pair’s second charge of possessing child abuse material with intent to breach related to alleged filming of the incident and that Delinicolis checked out of the hotel while he was on duty.
Delinicolis’ defence lawyer Phillip Strickland SC previously claimed his client and Dellosa had consensual sex with the girl in the hotel room.
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“At the hotel when the intercourse occurred there were sexual acts done consensually before the alleged offence and after the alleged offence,” he said.
“A jury will be instructed to look at the entire episode at the hotel.
“She’s agreed to have consensual sex with both of them at the time – after she claims it was non-consensual.”
Defence lawyer Matthew Breeze and solicitor Fadi Abbas had argued Dellosa’s moral culpability was less than his co-accused because he wasn‘t involved in organising the meetup at the hotel room.
“It’s not alleged my client procured the complainant into the hotel,” Mr Breeze said.
“My client is alleged to have become involved very much towards the end of the episode in the hotel room.”