A jury has heard dramatic audio of the moment a man walked in on his then-partner allegedly being raped.
The Invercargill District Court today heard the 111 calls of the alleged rape that happened at a rest-stop close to Coronet Peak near Queenstown, during the early hours of December 8, 2022.
The complainant said while she was being violated, she was able to call her then-husband so he could hear her cries for help.
The defendant, who is facing two charges of rape, four of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection and indecent assault, has interim name suppression.
“I’ve just got a phone call from my wife’s pocket, it sounds like she’s being raped,” her ex-husband told the emergency operator.
“I got a phone call with sobbing and ‘no please stop, no please stop’, and a creepy sounding guy in the background.”
Once the operator was able to contact the woman, the jury heard her pretending to be on the phone to her friend, while giving confirmation of her location.
"Everything is fine,” she pretended to tell her friend.
The operator asked: “is he there with you?” to which she replied: “yes”.
On the 111 call, the court heard the defendant in the background sounding confused and asking her why she was on the phone.
Seconds later, the court could hear him comment on a BMW SUV pulling into the rest stop, belonging to the woman’s then husband.
“You raped my wife you bastard get the f... out of here,” the court heard the man scream on the recording.
In a final call to police the ex-husband could be heard telling them he had a confrontation with the man, who then drove away.
“He’s driven off, I’ve got his number [plate],” he said.
“He’s dumped my wife on the ground naked at the top of the lookout.”
The complainant gave evidence and was cross-examined this morning by defence counsel Peter Redpath.
Mr Redpath questioned the woman’s actions leading up to being driven up Coronet Peak Rd.
He referred to text messages between the woman and her then-husband earlier in the night, where he had driven into town to get her around 4:30am.
“You said: ‘no just go home, it’s OK baby’,” Mr Redpath said to the complainant in court.
“And you proceeded to turn him around, didn’t you?”
“Not many days that go by that I wish that I didn’t,” the complainant replied.
“4:42am, it's a thumbs up emoji reply from [the ex-husband], at 4:41am you’re on the CCTV at the Caltex service station kissing the defendant, aren’t you?”
“You turned your husband around because you were going with the defendant,” Mr Redpath said to the defendant.
“Thats true, I did,” she replied.
The court viewed the CCTV footage of the complainant and defendant kissing or embracing outside a Caltex before driving up the mountain.
“A kiss is not the password that unlocks access to my whole body,” the complainant explained in court.
