Rape of sleeping teen alleged

A DUNEDIN man allegedly plied a teenage girl he had just met with alcohol before raping her as she slept, it is alleged.

David Alan Hill (44) is on trial before the Dunedin District Court after denying one count of rape and one of indecent assault.

The trucker was on his usual run back from Christchurch with a male relative in tow on September 5, 2015.

The boy had arranged to meet two female friends in Dunedin and Hill picked the girls up on the way to his Pine Hill home.

He poured bourbon and colas for the quartet.

The complainant — now 18 — told the court yesterday she had about three of the drinks and was ‘‘tipsy’’ and tired.

But the refreshments had a more extreme effect on Hill’s relative, who vomited in the toilet before going to bed.

One of the girls joined him, leaving Hill and the complainant in the lounge.

‘‘The next thing she realised was waking up to the defendant having sexual intercourse with her,’’ Crown prosecutor Richard Smith said.

The woman told the jury the man had stripped her naked without waking her.

‘‘It was just a massive shock. I was like ‘what the f*** is going on?’’’ she said.

She immediately bolted for the bedroom where her friends were, closely followed by Hill.

‘‘I was crying,’’ the complainant said. ‘‘He was yelling at me ‘are you trying to set me up?’’’

After vocal accusations and denials, Hill left the room and the teens barricaded themselves inside using a dresser to block the door.

However, during the night, someone left the room to use the toilet and did not replace it.

The woman said she woke to find Hill lying behind her, ‘‘grinding’’ his groin against her rear.

When Hill realised she was awake, he allegedly asked her: ‘‘Are you going to report me?’’

‘‘I was just speechless. I couldn’t even reply,’’ the complainant said.

The group had breakfast and Hill dropped them in town the next day.

Six months later, the teenager went to police.

In April 2016, Hill was interviewed and claimed there was nothing sexual that occurred on the night in question.

A week later, he requested another sitdown with police. In that statement, he said the complainant had come on to him, pinned him to the ground and quickly pulled her clothes off while demanding sex. When he eventually agreed, her demeanour changed, Hill told police.

Defence counsel Anne Stevens said her client followed the teen into the bedroom to find out why she was so upset. He joined her in bed the next morning to ask her what had happened the previous night, Mrs Stevens said.

There were two other people in the bed and the lawyer said it was ludicrous to think an indecent assault took place in their presence.

‘‘The defence case is . . . the complainant in this case, is not truthful, not credible and she’s an attentionseeker,’’ Mrs Stevens told the jury.

She suggested it was unbelievable that a girl who was not drunk could be stripped, manoeuvred on a couch and violated without waking up.

The trial, before Judge Michael Crosbie and a jury of seven women and five men, is scheduled to last four days.