A young woman has told a jury how she felt "dead and numb inside" while being subjected to an alleged joint sexual assault by NRL Dragons player Jack de Belin and Callan Sinclair in a North Wollongong townhouse.
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The alleged victim gave evidence from a remote location on Tuesday afternoon on the opening day of de Belin and Sinclair's NSW District Court trial in Wollongong.
The two men have each pleaded not guilty to five aggravated sexual assault charges stemming from the December 2018 incident.
"I just said stop and when he put his penis inside me, I couldn't do anything about it," the woman said.
"No one was listening to me so I had tears coming out of my eyes instead.
"My body went numb and it is a situation you never want to be in so you start crying because it is the only coping mechanism."
Crown prosecutor David Scully asked the woman to explain the events of the night of December 8, 2018 and early hours of December 9 to the jury.
The woman told the court she organised to meet up with a friend at a Wollongong pub on the night of the popular Santa Pub Crawl, before her plans changed and she went to Mr Crown at 10pm.
The woman joined a group of male friends and together they talked, danced and bought a few drinks.
She said she saw Sinclair - whom she'd previously met - standing with de Belin and went to say hello.
Later, the woman's male friend sent her a text message saying the group had left the club while she was talking to Sinclair.
The woman told the court she and Sinclair had three to five short kisses on the lips before one of Sinclair's friends suggested the group go to Fever nightclub.
The group started walking towards the club, before two of the friends split off and the woman was left standing with Sinclair and de Belin.
De Belin hailed a tuk-tuk and but instead of going to Fever, the tuk-tuk headed to Gipps St, with de Belin telling the woman "I'm going to my place, we need to charge our phones".
The woman said they all started walking up a dark hill despite her saying she wanted to go home.
They came to gated townhouse complex where de Belin climbed over a tall metal gate before Sinclair grabbed her wrist to keep her there.
The woman climbed over the fence as de Belin tried to catch her, however he dropped her and she fell on her back on the cement.
The trio walked to an empty house, which was in fact de Belin's cousin's home, and he went around the side and re-emerged to open the front door.
The woman said she would stay outside, however, entered as she needed to use the bathroom.
The court was told de Belin led her to an ensuite attached to a bedroom and the woman went to the toilet.
The woman told the court as she was finishing, de Belin walked into the bathroom naked, prompting her to quickly pull up her pants, wash her hands and ask Sinclair, who was standing in the bedroom why de Belin was naked.
She told the court Sinclair said de Belin wanted to have a shower.
The woman told jurors that only a few seconds later de Belin got out of the shower, walked out of the bathroom still naked and stood behind her before he undid her scarf top that was tied at the back.
The woman said de Belin pushed her onto the bed and said "show me your rack" as she covered her breasts.
The woman claimed both men repeatedly asked her to "show us your titties" which she said "no" to multiple times.
De Belin then allegedly unzipped and took off the woman's pants before taking off her underwear and said, "I like it when girls lift their hips up, it turns me on", the court heard.
"He split my legs open, put himself on top of me with a hand around my neck...and his forearm was resting on my collarbone," she said.
"Then he put his penis inside me.
"I couldn't fight back. I only weighed 51 kilograms and he was twice the size of me."
The woman told the court Sinclair then took off his clothes and began raping her.
The woman claims de Belin then grabbed her head and "forced his penis inside my mouth", with both men thrusting back and forth.
The woman said the men were "cheering each other on" and de Belin said, "yeah Cal keep going".
She said the pair swapped positions two more times before Sinclair said he "couldn't get hard anymore" and he went to the bathroom to get moisturiser.
"He put it around my anus, then he tried to stick his penis in my anus but he couldn't," she told jurors.
The woman said Sinclair took a shower while de Belin was still orally raping her before he again moved to put his penis inside her vagina.
A short time after, the woman told the court de Belin picked her up from the bed and carried her over to a desk that was in the room before he tried to insert his penis into her anus, prompting her to scream "stop" due to the pain.
She said de Belin replied "sorry" before throwing her onto the bed, causing her to feel whiplash.
The woman told the court the assault continued before he moved her to an ottoman and ejaculated on her back.
She then ran to the shower and was only in there for a few seconds as de Belin tried to join her but she was able to push him away and exit the shower, she said.
After drying herself quickly, she went back into the bedroom and Sinclair asked, "why are you crying?" to which she replied, "I didn't want any of this to happen", the woman told the court.
She claimed de Belin then exited the bathroom and asked the woman "why are you being so emotional?" to which she replied "I'm not", saying she feared for her safety.
The woman told the court de Belin then said, "you know how to keep your mouth shut, right?"
Jurors heard the woman ordered an Uber, as the men had not charged their phones and she felt pressured to go with them.
She told the men she requested the Uber take them to Heyday as she felt "it was a place I could get away from them".
The woman told the court de Belin said "here is $50 for the Uber and to keep your mouth shut" as they were approaching the club.
The woman claimed she had no opportunity to get away from the men and they started walking to Fever nightclub.
The trio lined up in the queue before de Belin started talking to a group of friends he recognised, providing her with the opportunity to get away, the court heard.
The woman walked quickly to Dicey Riley's before she ordered an Uber to take her home.
The trial continues.
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