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A woman who says she
was pack-raped 16 years ago was a "hottie" who candidly sought sex
with a man she had only just met, one of the rape accused told police. "She knew what she
wanted and she went after it like an executive," the man told a police
officer. In the High Court at
Wellington yesterday, Detective Constable Brian Cameron said he interviewed
one of the accused last July 19 about events alleged to have happened in Mt
Maunganui in January 1989. The accused said the
woman, who he thinks he had met just once, told him she wanted to have sex
with one of the other three men now on trial. The men, aged 40, 46,
47, and 53, face charges of rape and abduction. Two of them have two charges
of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection, and one of them faces an
extra rape charge. They have pleaded not guilty. Key details in the case
have been suppressed, including the names of the accused. Mr Cameron said the
accused he interviewed said he arranged a sexual encounter between the woman
and two of the accused. The accused said when
he was taking her to meet the men, she came on to him too and he had sex with
her as well. He said she was a hottie but he was not really into it that
much. "I didn't find it
a memorable bonk," the man said. He said the woman was
receptive when an extra man turned up with the one she had originally wanted.
The woman told the
court last week that she had asked for lunch to be arranged, but the accused
said that was not what she asked for. The scale of the police
investigation was made clearer yesterday when it was revealed about 9000
documents had been collected and disclosed to defence lawyers in the case. The court also heard
that during the investigation police were given permission to tap the phones
of the accused and overheard them discussing the woman's claims. The court has heard
that two of the accused told police investigating the woman's complaint, that
they had never raped anyone. Another, the youngest
of the group, told Detective Sergeant Max Taylor that he had been told a
woman had agreed to have sex with four men. The other three accused were
leaving as he arrived and one of them said to him: "In you go." He said the woman
seemed fine, not distressed, but she said he had not been part of the deal,
that there was only supposed to be two men. The accused told Mr
Taylor that he and the woman started talking and then had sex. He gave her a
ride home. She was friendly when they met later at a concert, he said |
