Alleged rapist told to do disease test

A GOLD Coast man who allegedly drugged a coworker and his girlfriend and then raped the woman twice has been ordered to undergo testing for a sexually transmitted disease.

The 46-year-old property professional, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was denied bail in the Southport Magistrates Court yesterday after being charged with two counts each of rape and stupefying a person to commit rape.

He will be tested for hepatitis B and/or HIV.

The court was told the man had previously been convicted of sexual assault in 2012 when he tried to force himself on a woman who had rebuffed his advances.

Magistrate Donald MacKenzie ordered the man take part in disease testing before denying bail.

It is alleged the man drugged his colleague and his girlfriend with the date rape drug rohypnol while having drinks at his home with the couple in late

January.

He is accused of dumping his colleague in a park and returning to the home to twice rape the woman, a virgin.

Police are waiting for forensic testing from evidence found on the woman and at the scene.

Defence lawyer Campbell MacCallum, of Moloney MacCallum Abdelshahied Lawyers, said the man had a different version of events.

The man claims the pair asked for drugs and after Googling they found the drugs prescribed to him as a sleep aid created the euphoric effect when combined with alcohol.

That drug contains rohypnol.

Mr MacCallum said the man claimed each person took the drug consensually before his work colleague went to the park.

The man admits to having sex with the woman while in the drug haze.

“He then went to bed with her and the two times they engaged in consensual sex,” Mr MacCallum said.

He said the man admitted the next day to having sex with the woman but that it was consensual.

Mr MacKenzie said the man’s claims were an “alternative hypothesis”.

“It’s particularly carefully crafted,” he said.

Mr MacKenzie said he was concerned about the man’s previous conviction for assault.

He denied bail and the matter will return to court on April 19.