Melbourne pub security guard found guilty of raping woman at her home

A Melbourne bouncer who raped a woman has had his identity concealed to protect his kids from “unnecessary embarrassment”.

A Melbourne security guard told a woman “this has been a long time coming” before raping the victim in her own home while not wearing a condom, a jury has heard.

The rapist, who can’t be named due to a suppression order to protect his children from “unnecessary embarrassment or distress” was found guilty of rape following a County Court trial.

According to a prosecution opening read to a jury, the security guard, who worked at a Melbourne pub, knew his victim for “about a year” after meeting the woman at his workplace.

The jury heard the victim had been drinking with work colleagues in the CBD in early 2018.

The rapist had earlier met the victim at a city pub before driving the woman and another person to Chapel St, the court was told.

However, the woman decided she wanted to go home shortly after arriving so the man offered her a lift home.

The jury heard the pair walked to the car where the man attempted to kiss the woman but she pushed him away.

The court heard the men then drove the woman home.

In the car on the way home, the woman told the offender she was seeing someone and only thought of him as a “brother”.

The man asked to come inside when they arrived at her apartment but she said it wasn’t “like that” and “you’re just a bro to me”.

The man entered his victim’s home after he asked the victim for a glass of water, the court was told.

The victim told him where the glasses were then went to the bathroom.

When she came out, the man allegedly said “god you’re beautiful” and tried to kiss her.

She recoiled and said “what the f--k are you doing”, to which he replied “this has been a long time coming” and called her a “tease”, the jury heard.

The court heard the man grabbed his victim’s shoulders, threw her onto the bed, got on top of her and pinned her down with his hands on her arms.

She told him to stop and she “didn't want to do this” before the man said “you teased me when you were at the bar”, the court heard.

According to the prosecution’s opening, the victim told her assailant to get off and leave but he instead attempted to take her pants off before unbuckling his jeans.

The court heard the man was “straddling” the victim when she tried to push him off before he grabbed her cheeks with one hand and said if she tried that again he would “do something worse”.

The offender then raped her without a condom, the court was told.

The court heard when he was finished he laughed and said: “I should have pulled out”.

The victim was frozen when he got out of bed, put on his pants and allegedly said “I guess I’ll see you next week” with a smirk on his face and then left, the jury heard.

The court heard the security guard later texted his victim and told her he was “sorry”.

“I must say (I’m so sorry, and so ashamed of my actions) you deserved better of me …,” he said.

“I hope we can do things the right way sometime soon, but I will understand if you think less of me for my actions and inactions!!

“Kind Regards … I am normally a gentleman and I’m very sorry that I wasn’t.”

The victim, who called police in the morning, had a medical exam.

Investigators also found a broken fingernail in her apartment.

In a police interview, the rapist claimed he had been invited in by her and that she’d “asked him to cuddle”.

The man also said she rolled onto him, kissed him and unbuckled his pants but he didn’t ejaculate during sex because he couldn’t “keep it up”.

The security guard said he texted her apologising about his “impotency”.

The man will return for sentencing on December 12.

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