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A former rugby league test player allegedly raped a woman in a car and threw money at her before kicking her out on to the street, Auckland District Court has been told.
The testimony came from the complainant's brother on the first day of depositions and before a tense stand-off between relatives of the complainant and the defendant outside the court.
The former Kiwis player has name suppression, as do five other people related to the case.
The man faces three charges of sexual violation by rape, sodomy and sexual violation in 2006.
The incident is alleged to have happened during an alcohol and drug-fuelled night, after the woman met the defendant at The Whiskey Bar on Ponsonby Road.
One of the people who had been out with the woman that evening testified that the woman had been drinking heavily.
The woman's brother told the court she had arrived home in the early hours of the morning, "quite upset" and claiming repeatedly that "something terrible had happened".
"All she said was that he was Maori ... he had an angry face. She could remember the angry face."
His sister entered the house, went to the toilet and after a few minutes could be heard crying, he told the court.
Alarmed, the man asked her if he should call the police, and she replied: "I've been raped."
The woman told her brother she should not have let it happen but just because she was drunk it did not mean she had deserved to be raped, he said. Police who responded to the emergency call told the court the woman was hysterical.
Auckland-based fashion designer Adrian Hailwood told the court how he had met the complainant for the first time at a Ponsonby bar that evening. "She was quite drunk," he said.
Mr Hailwood told the court how he watched the woman and her two friends drink three bottles of wine.
Mr Hailwood said he then went to The Whiskey Bar with the woman and her friends.
At the bar, Mr Hailwood said he saw the defendant, who appeared sober.
The boyfriend of one of the complainant's friends said he met the complainant for the first time that evening.
The woman was sitting with his girlfriend and the defendant, he said.
The man left the bar for 40 minutes after his girlfriend's handbag was stolen and returned to find the complainant and defendant "all over each other".
The woman had her hand on the defendant's lap and they were kissing each other, he said.
The accused at one point had his hand in the complainant's top, the court was told. "They looked like two people kissing and groping each other."
After a while, the defendant walked away to talk to someone else, which the complainant was not happy about, he said.
His girlfriend told the court she had found the defendant "sleazy" at times and admitted she knew the woman [complainant] had taken cocaine earlier in the evening. The depositions, before Judge Patrick Treston, are set to finish today.
- STAFF REPORTER, NZPA
