Pair said to have violated drunk girl

Two men have gone on trial for the alleged rape and sexual violation of a 17-year-old girl at New Brighton in Christchurch in December 2013.

In the Christchurch District Court yesterday, Parampreet Singh, 27, denied two rape charges and one charge of sexual violation, and Amritpal Singh, 25, denied one charge of rape and two charges of sexual violation of the teenager. The two men are not related.

Crown prosecutor Deidre Orchard told Judge David Saunders and the jury that the victim met Parampreet Singh on social media site Tagged on December 21.

The two chatted online and Parampreet invited her to go out drinking with him on December 23.

She told him she was too young for a bar, so they agreed to go to the beach.

There was another person in the car when Parampreet picked her up, but he was not introduced to her, Orchard said.

The teenager only knew Parampreet by his online name of Johnny.

When they arrived at the New Brighton beach, Parampreet gave her a vodka and orange to drink, Orchard told the court.

The victim was then given a much stronger one and encouraged to drink it quickly.

The last drink was straight vodka, which she was also encouraged to drink fast.

Orchard said Amritpal was going to and from the car, and Parampreet joined the girl in the back seat and started undressing her.

She tried to stop him but he stripped her naked and had sex with her.

She said she felt as if she was underwater, and could not move or take things in properly.

Parampreet got her out of the car, dressed her and took her up the steps and on to the roof of the New Brighton surf club.

Amritpal was up there waiting with his pants down, and her clothes were removed again, Orchard said.

The two men had turns sexually violating her.

She told police she lay there like a plank, then rolled away to vomit.

They gave her a break, then rolled her back and resumed violating her, Orchard said.

When they finished, they dressed her without her pants and bra, then dropped her at the end of her street, where she called for help to let her in her boarding house. She passed out and made a complaint to police the next day.

Orchard said the text records of the two defendants acknowledged they might be in trouble and, when one suggested they contact the girl, the other said not to as she would ask for her underwear, then remember everything.

Parampreet told police the girl asked for a threesome and was not drunk, while Amritpal said he was told she wanted sex, Orchard said.

The trial is continuing.