It took a jury simply two hours to achieve its verdict, rejecting the lady’s account Beale pressured her to carry out oral intercourse in a rest room cubicle at Bondi’s Seashore Highway Lodge in December 2022.
A rape case towards rugby star Kurtley Beale was completely contradicted by CCTV footage of the evening and will by no means have been pursued, his attorneys have argued
Beale is pursuing authorized prices after being discovered not responsible in February of 1 depend of sexual activity with out consent and two counts of sexual touching.
A rape case towards rugby star Kurtley Beale was completely contradicted by CCTV footage of the evening and will by no means have been pursued, his attorneys have argued
Beale is pursuing authorized prices after being discovered not responsible in February of 1 depend of sexual activity with out consent and two counts of sexual touching.
The rape case towards rugby star Kurtley Beale was completely contradicted by CCTV footage
Beale’s lawyer Margaret Cuneen (pictured) stated the accuser ought to have by no means pursued the trial and had apparent motive to lie
The lady’s story didn’t match up with CCTV footage which might have been clear to prosecuting authorities ‘proper from the beginning’, Beale’s barrister Margaret Cunneen SC instructed a listening to at Sydney’s Downing Centre District Courtroom on Friday.
‘Simply to learn this temporary and to see the CCTV is sufficient to say this case is doomed to fail,’ she instructed the court docket.
‘This is not only a phrase towards phrase case.’
The circumstances of the lady additionally on the time being in an argument together with her fiance gave her a ‘clear, apparent, urgent, speedy’ motivation to lie to save lots of her relationship, Ms Cunneen submitted.
‘Her relationship had come to a really parlous level. It was the bottom level within the relationship in accordance with the fiance,’ she stated.
Textual content messages detailing a dispute between the pair demonstrated the one means for the lady to ‘spin’ the story and get her fiance again on facet was to make the criticism towards Beale, Ms Cunneen argued.
‘It really works, as a result of he goes from being fully bored with what she’s saying to turning into sympathetic,’ she stated.
Beale’s rugby profession was positioned on maintain all through the trial earlier than he was discovered not responsible
Beale made his comeback to the game for Randwick within the Australian Membership Rugby Championship
Crown prosecutor Philip Hogan instructed the court docket ‘admissions’ made by Beale throughout a recorded cellphone name with the lady have been sufficient to warrant pursuing the case.
‘There’s one other much more elementary means by which this is not a case of phrase towards phrase,’ he instructed the court docket.
Within the name, Beale admits probably having misinterpret the scenario and says, ‘I used to be tremendous f***ing pissed, however no excuses in that regard’.
‘I assumed for some cause it was on,’ Beale additionally says in the course of the name.
Mr Hogan instructed the court docket the Crown could be entitled to deal with Beale’s feedback as an admission.
Within the defence’s case, the lady and Beale did have a sexual encounter in a cubicle of the boys’s lavatory, however the lady was consenting.
In making her criticism, the lady initially claimed Beale had adopted her into the lavatory, when CCTV footage confirmed Beale coming into first adopted by the lady.
‘Numerous individuals have been both instructed or understood from what she stated that Mr Beale had adopted her into the lavatory,’ Ms Cunneen stated.
‘That was not the case.’
Ms Cunneen additionally pointed to footage within the moments immediately after the pair emerged from the lavatory, by which the lady doesn’t seem like in any misery round Beale.
‘We all know that there was no obvious discomfort between the complainant and Mr Beale that there was even bodily kissing and hugging,’ Ms Cunneen stated.
Beale has been capable of return to first grade footy, making his Tremendous Rugby debut for the Western Power this week
The allegations and trial could have closed the door on Beale returning for the Wallabies once more due to his age
Decide Graham Turnbull stated that given present social consciousness of variations in the best way individuals react to trauma, the prosecution could have relied on her response afterwards to have been a ‘impartial issue’.
‘Folks reply in numerous methods and simply because somebody does not cry out, for instance, does not imply it did not occur,’ he stated.
Ms Cunneen stated within the footage the lady seems ‘extraordinarily heat and affectionate’ in circumstances the place she claims Beale’s closing phrases after raping her have been to ‘f*** off’.
‘To this point I have never heard of a rape fantasy that claims victims can then be seen to embrace their attacker,’ she stated.
A listening to has been set for June 14 for a call on prices.
The previous Wallabies playmaker has signed a short-term cope with the Western Power till the tip of the Tremendous Rugby Pacific season, after his court docket case sidelined him for 14 months till he turned out in mid-March for Sydney membership facet Randwick.
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