https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-nsw/ricardo-a...A teenager who was found “stumbling and sleepy” on the street was just tired from having consensual group sex, a defence barrister has told a District Court rape trial.
Closing statements were delivered on Tuesday in the two-week trial for married father-of-three Ricardo Audish, accused of the sexual assault of an 18-year-old woman in October 2016.
The pizza chef pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting the girl in Lugarno Pizzeria when he was aged 38 in the company of three teenage boys, who have also pleaded not guilty to sexual assault.
Barrister Eugene Wasilenia told the court: “If someone had it four times or more in the space of one hour it wouldn‘t be surprising that someone would want to fall asleep and not talk about it with busy bodies in the street”.He told the court it “used to be a joke in some circles” that people would get tired after sex, which explained why the girl was found by a stranger “stumbling and sleepy”.The Crown claims the boys and Audish raped her in the back of the pizza shop before dropping her on a street in Riverwood.
CCTV footage of the girl stumbling along the street was played to the court.
The triple-0 call made by the stranger was read in court: “She can’t talk. She’s shaking. She can’t hold herself up. She’s weeping. She looks like she’s on drugs. She’s going to fall over.”
Mr Wasilenia said the girl was not drugged and her behaviour could be explained by tiredness, a possible underlying illness or smoking too much cannabis
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A teenager who was found “stumbling and sleepy” on the street was just tired from having consensual group sex, a defence barrister has told a District Court rape trial.
Closing statements were delivered on Tuesday in the two-week trial for married father-of-three Ricardo Audish, accused of the sexual assault of an 18-year-old woman in October 2016.
The pizza chef pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting the girl in Lugarno Pizzeria when he was aged 38 in the company of three teenage boys, who have also pleaded not guilty to sexual assault.
Barrister Eugene Wasilenia told the court: “If someone had it four times or more in the space of one hour it wouldn‘t be surprising that someone would want to fall asleep and not talk about it with busy bodies in the street”.He told the court it “used to be a joke in some circles” that people would get tired after sex, which explained why the girl was found by a stranger “stumbling and sleepy”.
The Crown claims the boys and Audish raped her in the back of the pizza shop before dropping her on a street in Riverwood.
CCTV footage of the girl stumbling along the street was played to the court.
The triple-0 call made by the stranger was read in court: “She can’t talk. She’s shaking. She can’t hold herself up. She’s weeping. She looks like she’s on drugs. She’s going to fall over.”
Mr Wasilenia said the girl was not drugged and her behaviour could be explained by tiredness, a possible underlying illness or smoking too much cannabis.
Crown Prosecutor Kate Nightingale told the court the girl clutched a pole on the street for 17 minutes, before she was helped by the “good Samaritan”.
Ms Nightingale said a paramedic who treated her shortly after gave evidence he thought the cannabis she had was spiked.
The Crown told the court a cannabis bong the girl was given by one of the teenage boys was laced with an unknown drug that made her experience “periods of unconsciousness”.
A blood test 15 hours after the alleged attack did not detect a drug in her system other than low levels of cannabis.
But Ms Nightingale told the court a doctor told the trial on an earlier occasion certain drugs including GHB could go undetected.
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The court heard a number of witnesses during the trial including the alleged victim, two paramedics, a friend of the girl, a man who called an ambulance for her and doctors.
Seven men and four women make up the jury who will decide Audish’s fate
and thats the type of Barrister women have to face in court....APPALING