07:07 EDT, 26 April 2021
A detective investigating Jack de Belin's rape case 'willfully lied' giving evidence in the NRL star's first trial, a jury has been told.
De Belin's lawyer David Campbell SC described the officer's conduct as a gross departure from his job by not taking any notes of the first 90- minute conversation he had with the woman making the allegations.
'You knew full well as a police officer, your obligation is to make a record of a complaint received from a citizen,' Mr Campbell said on Monday.
NRL player Jack de Belin (pictured) arrives at the Downing Centre District Court over allegations he and Callan Sinclair raped a teenager in 2018