Tue, 27 Jul 2021, 10:07AM
A Dunedin 21-year-old allegedly raped two women at the same Orientation Week party, a court has heard.
Samuel Leigh Ebdell is on trial before the High Court at Dunedin after pleading not guilty to three counts of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection and two of rape.
His defence, counsel Sarah Saunderson-Warner said, was simple: he did not commit the offences with which he had been charged.
The first complainant told the court she was drinking with friends at a Castle St party, in the city s student sector, on February 17 last year.
In a video interview with police she gave a couple of weeks later, the woman said she bumped into Ebdell, whom she knew through friends, after using the toilet.