A Wollongong DJ and martial arts instructor has denied allegations he raped a teenage girl in his home in 2017 and instead claims she initiated the sexual encounter.
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Remzi Bektasovski continued giving evidence during his Wollongong District Court trial on Friday where he gave his version of events of what happened with a third alleged sexual assault victim.
Three then-teenagers have accused Bektasovski of raping them on separate occasions in 2016 and 2017 in the Illawarra.
Bektasovski, 22, has pleaded not guilty to five charges of sexual and indecent assault and claims the sexual encounters were all consensual.
Bektasovski told the jury the pair organised to go to his home to sort out a technology issue before he had to go teach a martial arts class at his parents' business one afternoon in early February 2017.
In her evidence, the teen alleged Bektasovski tried to kiss her, wouldn't let go of her, pulled her hair and coerced her into performing oral sex on him while on a fold-out bed in his granny flat.
Then after a knock at the door, she alleges Bektasovski tried to pull down her underwear then raped her in the laundry.
However, Bektasovski said he tried to work out the IT issue but could not while they sat on the couch.
He claimed the teen, who he did not know well, then put her hand on his leg, leant in to kiss him and he kissed her back.
Bektasovski claimed he did not touch her body but she unbuttoned his pants and he lifted his hips to allow her to take them off.
"Without saying anything she performed oral sex on me," he told the court.
After a short while Bektasovski told her there were condoms on the nearby shelf, which she went to get while he got up to lock the door, close the curtains and pull out the sofa bed.
He said they then had consensual sex.
"After you two had sexual intercourse, was there any conversation?" defence barrister Matthew Johnston asked.
"I only recall us just laughing at that point on the bed."
Bektasovski said his uncle and aunt then knocked on the door and waited outside while the pair quickly got dressed and met them outside.
Bektasovski said his uncle, who was speaking Albanian, reminded him to go to the training while his aunt briefly spoke to the teen girl.
Bektasovski told the court he and the teen "giggled" out of embarrassment as they had gotten "caught out" when they walked up the driveway and then said goodbye. The young woman was picked up by her father.
The only time they spoke again was one year later when Bektasovski sent her a Facebook message saying "hey, how's things" after seeing her around Wollongong. He sent another message two weeks later.
Under cross-examination, Crown prosecutor Michael Fox questioned Bektasovski's version of events, particularly whether the young woman was the one to initiate the sexual encounter.
"Without any warning she commenced touching you on the penis," Mr Fox asked. "Yes," Bektasovski replied.
Mr Fox questioned why Bektasovski only messaged her a year later.
"This woman who was quite advanced in her approaches to sex was someone you didn't bother to contact until 12 months later?" Mr Fox asked.
"I didn't bother contacting her because I found out she had a boyfriend about a month later," Bektasovski said.
"It was just a one off thing that happened."
"I suggest you didn't contact her because you sexually assaulted her," Mr Fox said.
"I never did that," Bektasovski replied.
Bektasovski went on to deny all allegations and the version of events the young woman gave in evidence.
Meantime, Bektasovski told the jury he had an alibi for the alleged sexual assault of the second teen on February 1, 2017.
The teen, who was in a sexual relationship with Bektasovski at the time, claims he asked to come to her house that afternoon and she told him she didn't want to have sex to which he replied, "well I'm coming for it so be ready".
Bektasovski allegedly started kissing the teen while in her bedroom before asking to "grind" on her before he bent her onto the bed, pulled her underwear and pyjama shorts to the side and had sexual intercourse without her consent.
The teen claims he was at her home from about 4.30pm to shortly before 5pm.
However, Bektasovski denies he went to the teen's home that afternoon, claiming he did not have time.
Bektasovski told the jury he was working at Warrawong from 4.10pm for at least half an hour before he had to go to Cringila to teach a martial arts class.
Mr Johnston produced a photo that Bektasovski took at 4.10pm that day of his car odometer, which was taken so he could claim his mileage at work.
Bektasovski therefore claims he was unable to do the work, drive to the girl's home and then back to Cringila to teach the 5.15pm class.
Bektasovski claimed he would "normally" take a photo before he started a job.
However, under cross-examination, Mr Fox suggested he could have taken the photo after he finished the work therefore giving him enough time to go to the girl's home then to the martial arts centre.
Bektasovski could not recall whether he did take the photo before starting work but kept repeating that was what he "normally did".
"The only alibi we have comes from you," Mr Fox said.
Bektasovski acknowledged it was "hypothetically" possible that he had time to go to her house but maintained "that's not what happened ... no I never had sex with her on that day".
The trial continues.
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