The 12-person jury tasked with deciding the fate of NRL player Jack de Belin and his friend Callan Sinclair have not come to a verdict on Thursday afternoon.
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They will resume their deliberations on Monday morning at Wollongong courthouse.
Judge Andrew Haesler dismissed the men and woman for the weekend, giving them clear instructions to not discuss the evidence in the trial.
The jury first retired to consider the evidence and their decision at about 10.30am on Thursday.
The three and a half week trial, which began on November 3, heard allegations a then 19-year-old woman met the pair and their two friends at Mr Crown Nightclub where they danced, drank and talked.
Upon leaving the club, the woman thought they were going to Fever Nightclub, however, the men say the trio planned to go back to a unit for a threesome.
After getting a tuk-tuk ride through Crown Street Mall to Gipps Street, the trio walked to a unit complex where they jumped over a fence.
After entering a North Wollongong unit with the men to use the toilet, the woman alleges she was sexually assaulted after leaving a bedroom ensuite.
The jury heard the woman claim the men ignored her protests as she cried and "felt dead and numb inside".
The woman alleges the men jointly raped her, swapping positions between her mouth and vagina, and were cheering each other on before Sinclair went have a shower.
Both men claim the woman was moaning in pleasure, said "yes" and that it was "normal sex".
The woman claims de Belin continued to assault her, before he tried to have anal sex with her.
The men claim the woman became upset briefly when she was concerned de Belin had a girlfriend, to which de Belin replied, "baby it's ok, me and my girlfriend are on the rocks".
After the alleged assault, the woman ordered them an Uber that dropped them opposite Heyday Nightclub where they walked to the line at Fever Nightclub.
The woman claims de Belin said to her "here is $50 for the Uber and to keep your mouth shut".
The woman said she could not "get away" from the men but then walked off minutes after arriving in the line while she said the men were distracted.
She then went home in an Uber where she "cried herself to sleep".
Crown prosecutor David Scully said in his closing address that there was a "fundamental disconnect" between the complainant's intentions and what the men wanted.
"They wanted to have a threesome with her. But the difficulty is - and this is where the fundamental disconnect arises - neither of the accused bothered to tell the complainant that they wanted to go back to the unit, much less to go back to the unit to have sex with her," Mr Scully said.
De Belin's defence lawyer David Campbell SC said during his closing remarks that his client and Sinclair had not committed a crime.
"He (de Belin) conducted himself in a way that was morally wrong. He knows that. He cheated on his partner. He knows that. He should have been more respectful. He knows that," he said.
"Whilst what happened is not something to be praised, it certainly does not for the reasons we have outlined, involve any criminal conduct."
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