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North Shore man Mark Tipene is to stand trial over the indecent assault of a young woman who was allegedly kissed and touched in a motel room after being plied with alcohol.
It is alleged Tipene spent November 7 last year with the 21-year-old victim after he offered to counsel her on some problems.
During a depositions hearing in the North Shore District Court yesterday a friend of the victim described how she received a phonecall about 3pm that day. "She said, 'Hi babe it's me ... this is really weird but I'm at a hotel with Mark but it's ok. It's ok ... I'm really drunk but I'm ok."
The witness, who cannot be identified, received a second phonecall from her friend several hours later. "At that stage she sounded a lot different. I was really worried. She said, 'Babe, babe I'm going out drinking and dancing with Mark but I'm ok'. She kept repeating herself. I was really worried."
The witness said her friend came home about 1am. She "burst" into the room and vomited down the front of her dress.
"She was just frantic. She came running in saying 'we have got to get out of here, we have got to get out of here'. She reeked of alcohol.
"She said 'Mark touched me, Mark touched me' and she relayed her story to me." The witness said her friend drank beer and spirits before she and Tipene went to a motel in Orewa with a bottle of tequila.
The witness said: "Mark made her stand in front of the mirror and look at herself and say she was beautiful. Each time that she didn't do it he made her take a swig of tequila."
Two hours later Tipene allegedly told the victim to get into her best clothes as he was going to take her out dancing. He played some music and had her dance for him in the room.
The witness said her friend described how Mark approached her on the bed and started massaging her. She said that he kissed her and she told him to stop."
Tipene has been remanded on bail to appear in the Auckland District Court in September.
