Wallabies star Kurtley Beale ‘desperate’ for sex before alleged bathroom assault

A woman allegedly assaulted by Wallabies star Kurtley Beale in a bathroom stall described the encounter as “so rapey”, a court has been told.

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A woman who alleges she was assaulted by Kurtley Beale in a bathroom stall described the encounter with the Wallabies star in text messages hours later as “so rapey”, a court has been told.

Mr Beale, 35, is facing a jury trial at Sydney’s Downing Centre Court after pleading not guilty to sexual intercourse without consent and two counts of sexual touching.

Police allege Mr Beale groped a woman’s bottom at the Beach Road bar in Bondi on December 17, 2022, before forcing her into oral sex in a stall in the men’s bathroom.

Text messages presented during the woman’s evidence on Monday reveal she described the encounter as “so rapey” after confiding in her sister about the allegations.

In later messages to her fiancée, the woman said Mr Beale followed her into the bathroom and “technically assaulted her”, but said she’d been scared to tell her partner.

Taking the stand on Monday, the 28-year-old woman told the jury Mr Beale had been “desperate” and “forceful” before barging in on her in the bathroom cubicle.

“(Mr Beale) says: ‘I really want to f**k you’. Those were the words he used. I said: ‘I can tell … (and) we can’t. You’re married. I’m engaged. I don’t want to’,” she said.

“He says: ‘Come on. Let’s find a corner somewhere around here’. I said: ‘What are you talking about, don’t be silly’ … I remember he kept saying the same thing.”

Kurtley Beale is fighting allegations of sexual intercourse without consent. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

Asked about Mr Beale’s tone, the woman said: “It was desperate, it was forceful, it was … ‘I really wanna f**k you’”. For her part, she said she tried to be “friendly”.

After continuing into the bathroom, the woman said Mr Beale barged in on her while she was seated in the stall before turning around and locking the cubicle door.

The woman told the jury she looked to see Mr Beale grasping his penis and shaking it in an “it’s here motion” before demanding she perform oral sex.

In response, the woman told the jury that she said “we can’t”, citing the pair’s respective relationships, and Mr Beale became “increasingly frustrated”.

She went on to claim Mr Beale proceeded to force her into performing oral sex before she pulled back, telling the rugby star repeatedly “I don’t want to”.

“I tried to stay calm. I said: ‘I don’t want to’. I think I even said sorry,” the woman said.

“He said: ‘Come on’ … I stood up and said no a bit louder. He said: ‘Keep your voice down’.”

The woman told the jury Mr Beale proceeded to spin her around “quite quickly” and pushed her forward before she managed to right herself and push past him.

“He’s still got his penis out and asks again: ‘Do you want to f**k’?” she said. “He goes again, ‘Please can we f**k’. He looks me up and down and goes, ‘Oh well, f**k off then’.”

He says the encounter was consensual. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Swift

The woman’s evidence ended there before the short break. She previously told the jury that she “didn’t want to be anything other than friends” with Mr Beale.

In her earlier evidence, the woman told the jury that she was speaking with Mr Beale at the main bar when she “felt something … a hand” on her bottom.

“I am standing there trying to participate in the conversation when I noticed someone had grabbed my bum,” the woman, who cannot be named, told the court.

Asked what she felt next by Crown prosecutor Jeff Tunks, the woman said: “I'm aware of feeling shocked and surprised, and I turn and realise its Mr Beale.”

Breaking down crying while giving evidence, the woman said the hand was initially on the outside of her playsuit dress before it “moved down” to her bare skin.

She went on to claim the alleged grope lasted for “maybe a second and a half”, and after she told Mr Beale to stop he “pulled his hand away”.

The woman’s evidence on Monday is the first time she has taken to the stand during the jury trial and focused on the boozy night at the busy Bondi bar.

Mr Beale also pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual touching without consent. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Swift

The woman told the court that she had been with her fiance in the pokies room when Mr Beale entered, with the pair discussing the former NSW Waratah’s wedding.

She told the court that she showed Mr Beale screenshots from the Instagram of his own wedding, commenting on the clothes worn by Mr Beale’s groomsmen.

During the conversation, the woman told the court Mr Beale said to her fiance “don’t do it bro, it’s a trap” before the group returned separately to the main bar.

In her opening submissions, Mr Beale’s lawyer, Margaret Cunneen SC, told the jury the bathroom act was “entirely consensual” and there was no criminal touching.

The jury were previously shown CCTV footage from inside the bar on the night of the alleged assault, including the alleged victim following Mr Beale into the bathroom.

The video captured the about 4½ minutes the pair spent inside the men’s bathroom, during which police allege Mr Beale forced the woman into oral sex.