Before some knuckleheads on here continue with their cheap shots from the sidelines & character assassination of a footballer by talking out of their arses, here is a collection of excerpts from the media reports put together in a rough chronological order with a few comments and notations :
In evidence today, the woman said she had been drinking heavily and partying with friends at a Kings Cross nightclub in the early hours of September 4 when she noticed a number of football players were in the club
Comment : So the woman knew she was associating with persons with a public profile. She says she had been drinking heavily.
she remembered little of the evening, apart from dancing and drinking and kissing someone at the bar
had little recollection of the hours from about 3am until she woke up in an apartment just after 8am
Comment : No allegation of impropriety at this stage. Consentual kissing of person unnamed is noted.
The court also heard the woman made 21 calls on her mobile phone, and caught several cabs, during the hours she said she could not remember
"she had no recollection of how she came to be in the apartment
Comment : A complete lack of background evidence regarding the prior nights events after leaving the club.
The 26-year-old said she became distressed after she went to the bathroom to discover her vagina was "red and sore'', and her black shorts were inside-out.
"I remember waking up on September 4 at about 8am ... I was on a lounge with a brown doona cover over me ... I was quite dazy,'' the woman said today.
"I've gotten up from my chair and gone into the bathroom and I realised that my pants were inside-out. "I didn't know what had happened to me," she said."
Comment : So it is at this point that the woman contends there is something wrong but doesnt know what happened. How does anyone know wether she herself or someone else put her undies/shorts on in reverse ?
"In fear, I was so scared, I pushed record on my mobile phone as I was walking out of the bathroom.''
The court then heard details of the phone recording, in which an unidentified man is heard to say "thanks for the orgasm''.
"You're gonna be sorry, your mate will be sorry'' the woman says in the recording"
Comment : Of what is she scared if she could not recall anything about the events from 3-00am till this point ? Theres no clear evidence of anything here other than a veiled threat is made against the accused.
the woman claims she was drugged and sexually interfered with
"The woman said she started crying and she left the apartment immediately and got a cab to a friend's home. I told him (cab driver) to hurry up
, I think I've been raped"
The 26-year-old woman told police she
might have been sexually assaulted
Comment : There is a disparity in the original allegation of being drugged aswell as sexually assaulted. The woman has stated that she is not sure if a sexual assault took place.
A RAPE case against NRL player Anthony Laffranchi is reported in the media.
The 26-year-old woman, who cannot be named
Comment : the person with a public profile has his name dragged through the mud while there is anonimity for the person making the allegation however flimsy
There is much more of a case in this thread to have some of the dimwitted posters charged with making a spurious or vexatious assumptions without any basis in fact and the character assasination of someone for their own petty grandstanding motives.