A woman who has accused rugby league player Jack de Belin and his friend Callan Sinclair of sexual assault following a night out two years ago has defended her actions while on a nightclub dance floor.
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On the third day of cross-examination during the NSW District Court trial in Wollongong, de Belin's lawyer David Campbell questioned the alleged victim about her closeness with the pair while they were at Mr Crown nightclub on December 8, 2018.
St George Illawarra Dragons player de Belin, 29, and Shellharbour Sharks player Callan Sinclair, 23, are accused of raping the woman in a North Wollongong townhouse after they left the nightclub.
The men have pleaded not guilty to five counts of aggravated sexual assault and claim their sexual intercourse was consensual.
The jury was shown CCTV footage of the woman dancing with a group of men, including de Belin and Sinclair at Mr Crown, which was consistent with the evidence she gave on Tuesday.
The footage shows the woman talking in the ears of the men in the group.
The men were also seen talking to each other and at times had their arms around one another.
Mr Campbell asked the woman whether she "looked very fondly" into de Belin's eyes while on the dance floor.
"I don't remember, it was two years ago," she said. "I was dancing, I was having fun.
"I was a 19-year-old girl. I'm allowed to have a good dance."
After watching the surveillance footage of herself and the men on the dance floor she said "I'm smiling, I can't see if my eyes are open or not" when asked again about looking affectionately at de Belin.
The woman was asked whether she remembered "cuddling or touching" de Belin while on the dance floor.
"I do not remember," the woman replied.
Mr Campbell also suggested the woman had been in "close contact" with de Belin before taking his hat off.
"Yes. I did say I took his hat," she said.
Earlier in the cross-examination, the woman became visibly upset and asked for a five-minute break after being questioned about the exact words the defence claim she said to a male colleague following the alleged assault.
Mr Campbell asked the woman whether she told colleague, "he took me to someone's place and one guy pinned me down and sexually assaulted me".
"I do not remember. It was two years ago," the woman told the court.
"I'm so sorry, I do not have recollection of what happened all that day and every little piece of it."
After further questioning about the same conversation, the woman said "all that matters is what happened in that unit".
The trial continues.
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