Mitkumar Maheshbhai Patel arrives at Supreme Court. (News Corp/Attila Csaszar)
Crime
by Vanessa Marsh
Premium Content
Subscriber only
A 22-year-old woman who advertised a mobile phone for sale on Facebook Marketplace was allegedly raped by the buyer when she delivered it to his Chermside home, a court has heard.
Mitkumar Maheshbhai Patel has today pleaded not guilty to raping the young woman in 2019 on the first day of his trial in the Brisbane Supreme Court.
Crown Prosecutor Sarah Farnden said during the trial, the jury would hear the woman became uncomfortable with Patel before the alleged attack and wrote a text message to her partner which said "SOS" but she never hit send.