04:52 EDT, 27 April 2021
The head detective investigating Jack de Belin s rape allegations has been grilled for the second day in court by the footballer s lawyer for accessing privileged information.
Callan Sinclair, 23, and de Belin, 30, have pleaded not guilty to multiple charges of aggravated sexual assault that allegedly took place at a North Wollongong unit in December 2018.
In the first trial of the two men that could not be concluded Detective Senior Constable Shawn Adams admitted lying under oath about looking through a privileged file on de Belin s phone.
NRL player Jack de Belin (pictured) is facing a retrial over allegations he and Callan Sinclair raped a teenager in 2018
NRL star s phone calls after alleged rape
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A man has told a court that footballer Jack de Belinâs accuser approached him in a nightclub before she was allegedly assaulted and said the footballer was âhotâ and she wanted to âget with himâ.
However, he later conceded part of his recollection of that night came to him in a flashback in a dream.
Mr de Belin and Callan Sinclair are on trial in the NSW District Court on five counts each of aggravated sexual assault after they allegedly assaulted the 19-year-old at a North Wollongong unit in the early hours of December 9, 2018, after meeting her at the Mr Crown nightclub during a Santa pub crawl.
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