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A 37-year-old man drank beer and smoked cigarettes as he subjected a Pukekohe woman to a 4 1/2-hour sex attack in her own home, Crown prosecutors said yesterday.
Roger Tira Kahui listened from behind a darkened screen as his alleged victim told a jury in the High Court at Auckland how he tricked his way into her home on the night of June 13 last year by asking to use the phone then attacked and raped her.
"He pushed open the ranchslider and forced his way into my house," the woman said. "He grabbed a hold of me from behind, with his arms around my shoulders."
Kahui faces a total of 26 charges, including 11 of sexual violation, seven of indecent assault and three of threatening to kill. He was allegedly armed with a hammer and scissors at the time of the attack.
He faces additional counts of kidnapping, assault and injuring. He denies all the charges.
The woman said that in an attempt to prevent the attack she told Kahui that she was pregnant, and that a policeman lived next door, but it had "no effect whatsoever".
"I saw a hammer. He raised it and said something like 'calm down, bitch' ...
"My heart felt like it was coming out of my chest. I knew what was going to happen ... I believe I actually told him I couldn't breathe.
"He just started telling me to calm down and everything would be all right."
The woman was forced to wear a pillowcase through most of the ensuing attack.
She was allegedly beaten around the face and head a number of times during her ordeal, and her left eye was left swollen shut.
Crown prosecutor Kirsten Gray told the court Kahui had forced the woman to shower at least twice during the attack in order to remove physical evidence, but ESR scientists later removed samples of Kahui's DNA from the woman, and from her home.
Ms Gray told the court the woman eventually managed to escape from Kahui by running to a service station after he drove her around Pukekohe, in her own vehicle, looking for a cash machine.
Surveillance footage and a 111 call transcript from the service station will be heard during the trial.
Ms Gray said Kahui had been interviewed by police about 10 days after the attack and had made a number of admissions that would not be challenged during the trial.
In his opening remarks to the jury, Justice Hugh Williams said they should disregard the fact Kahui had the same surname as the man charged with murdering south Auckland infants Chris and Cru Kahui.
Chris Kahui has yet to stand trial on that matter, and "that trial has nothing to do with this trial", he said.
