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A woman who says she was raped by a Northland policeman nearly 20 years ago denied calling him "a naughty little policeman" during the alleged incident.
The 63-year-old woman, who cannot be named, was being cross-examined yesterday in the Auckland District Court on the second day of a jury trial of the former policeman, now 44.
He faces eight charges, including four of sexual violation by rape.
Defence lawyer Gary Gotlieb suggested to the woman that she willingly entered the police station in the middle of the night in March 1988 with the accused and had sex with him.
"[The accused] says you took your pantihose off in the car and walked into the police station ... then you consensually had sex on the desk and then on the floor."
The woman said this was wrong - "I was raped over the desk, then I was raped lying on the floor. It was not consensual sex. It was rape."
Mr Gotlieb suggested that she had asked the accused to put handcuffs on her while they were on the floor and told him he was "a naughty little policeman".
She told Mr Gotlieb she would never use such a phrase. "I think this is someone else's fantasy, not mine."
Earlier yesterday, the woman said that when she arrived home that night she took off all her clothes and bathed.
"I felt very dirty. I sat in some very hot water and washed myself."
When a friend arrived, she told him she could not talk about what had happened. He asked her if the policeman had raped her.
"I said yes."
The woman told the court her friend noticed bruising on her wrists. "He said, 'The bastard', and got very upset."
She later complained to police and was told after she had been interviewed that the accused policeman had "admitted everything".
"I felt very, very reassured. I felt I could go to sleep," she told the court.
The woman said that when she finally gave a statement to police three months later and signed it, she was told a full investigation would follow.
"I was relieved something was going to happen."
She said she was shocked to hear the man was still in uniform and still working when she had believed he had resigned and was facing a criminal conviction.
She also learned that he had not confessed, as another policeman had told her.
Mr Gotlieb showed the woman her signed 14-page statement from June 1988 and asked her to confirm everything was correct.
She said the document was six pages shorter than the original.
Because she had been lied to by police up until that point, she said, she was "extremely distrustful" of them and noted in her diary at the time that the statement was 20 pages long.
Judge Michael Lance, QC, refused an application from Television New Zealand to publish the accused's name.
He said he would be prepared to consider an application for permanent suppression. The order suppressing the accused's name until the end of the trial was unusual, he said, but so was the case.
- NZPA
