Strange accused of drying and raping drunk woman

An intoxicated young woman was with friends in the early hours of the morning when a stranger offered him a ride home.

While she refused and was later placed in a Uber by a friend, the stranger followed her in her car, took it from the roadside and took her to her house, where they had sex.

That stranger, Wiria Mohamadi, doesn’t deny it followed and pick it up, but he denies that sex was not consensual, which the woman claims.

One night of July 2023, the woman was late with her friends when she hit the head while she was kicked out of a bar after hours of heavy consumption.

As she struggles to remember everything that happened next, she claims to have been sexually assaulted by Mohamadi in her home.

Mohamadi is now advocating charges of kidnapping by sexual connection, rape and illegal sexual connection to a jury of eight men and four women in the Christchury District Court.

In his opening speech yesterday, Crown Prosecutor Leandra Fiennes said the woman went to several bars on the night of the alleged incident.

She consumed a mixture of alcoholic beverages when things started to get blurry.

The complainant was expelled from a bar, and at this moment Mohamadi made some attempts to talk to her.

However, she repeatedly tried to get in an attempt to look for her bag and became increasingly frustrated as she was still removed from the bar.

During chaos, the woman fell and hit her head on the sidewalk.

Fiennes said this was the last memory that the complainant had of the night.

She claimed that Mohamadi appeared in a car around and watched the woman’s interactions.

He walked to her twice and tried to interact with his wife, Fiennes said.

CCTV images would show him back to the car and supposedly following the woman’s Uber, she said.

For almost 10 minutes, he supposedly followed Uber. She claimed that when the vehicle stopped and the complainant came out, he caught her and took her to his house.

“She only remembers passages and will compare a break -blame. Her first memory is lying on his bed and having sex. She remembers saying she didn’t want to and was not in a good mood.”

Fiennes claimed that the complainant was not consenting, nor was it in a suitable state to consent.

At the opening address of the defense lawyer, she said that Mohamadi denied kidnapping the woman and believed she had consented to sex. Jarman stated that the facts the crown presented were not the full story and urged the jury not to jump to a decision.

After the openings, a video of the complainant interview with the police was played in the jury.

She talked about hitting the head outside the bar.

“The concussion I suffered was quite severe. I don’t have a piece of time; the next memory I have is naked in a bed with someone I didn’t know. My brain was so dispersed. I was lying without clothes and he had no clothes.

“I know we were having sex, and something happened, and I rolled from them, saying ‘I don’t want to’.”

Crown prosecutor Sean Mallett questioned the complainant, asking her why she let Mohamadi direct her house after waking up at her home.

She said she just wanted to get home, didn’t know how to get home, didn’t know where she was and didn’t think she had another option.

When asked about sexual interaction, she said that at one point she had told Mohamadi to use condom.

She said she was in “Auto Pilot, in a car pilot state”.

“I wouldn’t be comfortable with unprotected sex. I remember being in a lot of pain.

“I was trying to say ‘no’ in different ways. I really didn’t understand what was going on.”

During the interrogation of the complainant, defense lawyer Kerryn Beaton, KC, asked the complainant when she had a clear and uninterrupted memory.

The complainant said it was hard to say that her head head was so bad that she had a concussion for six months.

“I think it’s impossible to know, but I think I was unconscious.”

The complainant said she suffered extreme nausea, headaches and had difficulty working for a long time after the incident.

“I’m not sure if I lost consciousness. I remember hitting my head, opening my eyes and seeing the concrete.”

Beaton will continue to question the complaint as the trial continues today before Judge Michael Crosbie.

Sexual damage

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