Joel Nathan Fitzpatrick Burtt has admitted to punching the woman in the head but denies multiple counts of sexual intercourse without consent, a Sydney jury has heard.
A Byron Bay man allegedly headbutted then raped a woman inside The Star Grand Hotel in Sydney before pouring a bucket of ice over her and repeatedly stomping on her head, a jury has been told.
She anticipated the complainant would give evidence that she walked back to the hotel with two men – the man who had booked the room and the accused – to collect something she had left there as she was planning to go to another party that night. The accused then allegedly punched the woman to the left side of her head causing swelling and bruising.
The prosecutor expected her evidence to be “the accused kicked her in the face causing her to fall off the bed”. The prosecutor said the other charges relate to two earlier occasions, during which Fitzpatrick Burtt allegedly grabbed the woman by the hair, headbutted her and held his hands around her neck and over her mouth, and separately put both hands around her neck and “squeezed tightly”.
“It is a very big issue that it was non-consensual, or if in her heart or in her mind that she wasn’t consenting, that he knew that,” he said.
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