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One of four men accused
of pack raping a woman at Mt Maunganui 16 years ago told police he had never
forced sex on anyone. In the High Court at
Wellington yesterday, Detective Patricia Clarke said she spoke to the man at
his home on July 19 last year. She said she wanted to
talk to him about a woman's allegations of sexual violation. The accused, 53,
talked to a lawyer and said he would not make a statement. When told he would be
charged with sex charges and abduction, the man said, "I am completely
innocent," Ms Clarke said. "I totally deny
these charges. I am completely innocent and I have never forced sex on anyone
in my life," he said when charged. A former workmate said
the man was a smooth talker. Another agreed he was successful with women. He
was not known to be aggressive, they said. He and three other men,
aged 40, 46, 47, are on trial charged with detaining a woman with intent to
have sex with her and raping her in January 1989. Two of them also face two
charges of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection and one faces
another rape charge. They pleaded not guilty. Justice Ron Young has
suppressed key details, including the accused men's names. Giving evidence earlier
in the week, the woman said she thought she was being taken to lunch with one
of the men but instead was taken to a hut where her hands were bound, five
men raped her and one violated her with an object. The trial enters its
second week on Monday. A witness said one of
the accused said he had organised for a good-looking woman to have sex with a
man. Two men had shown up at the meeting and the accused had put it to her
that if she had sex with those two, she should also have sex with another two
men, and that had happened. Another man invited to
take part could not get an erection and that was like the punchline of the
story, the witness said. The story made it sound like the sex acts were
consensual, the witness said. |
