Ex-CFMEU boss Dave Hanna insists alleged victim consented to sex

Former union boss Dave Hanna believes he consensually had sex with and filmed the woman who has accused him of rape.

Former union boss Dave Hanna, centre, walks with his legal team as they leave the District Court in Brisbane. Picture: AAP

Former union boss and Labor powerbroker Dave Hanna believes he consensually had sex with and filmed the woman who has accused him of raping her in 2017.

Giving evidence during his trial in Brisbane’s District Court today, Mr Hanna, 54, he had finished his last shift as a labourer at the Rocklea fruit markets on March 3 and was having send-off drinks with friends at the Eleven rooftop bar in Fortitude Valley when he met the woman, who was aged 30 at the time.

After she lost her handbag and was kicked out of the bar for being drunk, within minutes of having met him, Mr Hanna said he offered to help her get home.

“We were chatting away, not for long, and the doorman, security, came over and said words to the effect to the lady that ‘it’s time for you to leave’,” he said.

“I helped (the woman), was going to go with her, make sure she was okay.”

Mr Hanna said they went to leave in a taxi when the woman realised she’d lost her handbag.

She was not allowed back inside to retrieve the handbag but Mr Hanna went back into the bar.

A doorman later asked him to come downstairs to speak with the woman.

“I went down and had a chat with (her),” Mr Hanna said.

“The doorman seemed frustrated, seemed to be over it.

“She said ‘I haven’t got my keys to get into my house’. I said ‘9 times out of 10 you can find a way in’.

“Being in the building industry I know doors are flimsy and don’t take much to open.”

Mr Hanna said he had been drinking beer, red bull and vodka and espresso martinis and was also drunk at the time he went home with the woman.

He said there was some conversation and physical contact between them in the taxi on the way to the woman’s apartment in the northern suburb of Taigum.

“She was a bit tired at one point so I put her head towards my shoulder,” he said.

“At one point she nodded off and dropped her phone so I picked it up.”

At the unit complex, Mr Hanna said he tried to break into a window but later, with the woman’s permission, kicked the locked door open.

Once inside, she pointed at a bottle of rum and offered him a drink.

They went up to the woman’s bedroom and started kissing, Mr Hanna said.

“I walked around and put my drink on the bedside table,” he said.

“I walked back to the end of the bed and continued to kiss.

“We fell onto the bed and continued to fondle and that sort of stuff.

“She undid her top.

“She asked me to undo her button, so I undid the button.”

Mr Hanna said foreplay continued until a point where he reached for his phone to play music.

It was then he asked if he could take a photo of the woman’s vagina.

“It wasn’t a straight out, ‘yes’, but like a, ‘yeah’,” Mr Hanna said of her response.

They then had what Mr Hanna described as consensual sexual intercourse.

Asked if there was any protest or if the woman appeared to be unconscious, Mr Hanna said, “no”.

Mr Hanna said the pair continued to chat after he had sex and she posed in a “sexy pose” while he took another photograph before he left.

He said he deleted some of the photos on his way home in a taxi that night and deleted the rest the following morning.

The one-time Labor Party Queensland vice-president and leader of the “Old Guard” faction — whose members included Kevin Rudd and Peter Beattie — pleaded not guilty yesterday to three counts of rape and a charge of filming the woman’s genitalia in breach of her privacy.

The trial continues.