04:25 EDT, 3 May 2021
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A jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the trial of NRL footballer Jack de Belin, who denies raping a woman with a friend after a pub crawl in 2018.
The St George Illawarra forward, 30, and his friend Callan Sinclair, 23, have both pleaded not guilty to multiple charges of aggravated sexual assault, saying their encounter with the then-19-year-old in a North Wollongong unit was consensual.
The Sydney District Court jury began deliberations on Monday morning, following 13 days of pre-recorded and live evidence in which the woman testified she left a bar with the men under the misapprehension she was heading to another bar.
04:09 EDT, 29 April 2021
Walking through a closed bathroom door naked as a woman used a toilet is indicative of Jack de Belin s attitude the night the NRL footballer allegedly raped a teenager, a prosecutor says. He just thought he could do whatever he wanted, David Scully said of the incident minutes before the alleged attack.
A Sydney jury on Thursday began hearing closing arguments ahead of their deliberations in the retrial of the St George Illawarra forward, 30, and his friend Callan Sinclair, 23. He thought he could do whatever he wanted, David Scully said of de Belin walking naked into the bathroom