A Thai sex worker allegedly held as a slave in Canberra brothels confronted her former employer in two fiery, secretly taped phone conversations, a court has heard.
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But alleged brothel madam Watcharaporn Nantahkhum accused the complainant of lying and said, ''nobody tricked you to come here''.
Nantahkhum has pleaded not guilty to possessing a slave, perverting the course of justice and four offences under the federal Migration Act.
The charges relate to two Thai women, who cannot be named, working as prostitutes in mid-2007 from Braddon premises rented by Nantahkhum.
It is alleged Nantahkhum allowed them to work in Australia in breach of the conditions of their tourist visas, and well after their visas had expired.
The 45-year-old Kambah woman is standing trial in the ACT Supreme Court, and the jury yesterday heard transcripts of telephone calls recorded by police without the defendant's knowledge.
In June 2008, after leaving Nantahkhum's alleged employ, one of the two women - the alleged victim of the slavery charge - was detained at Villawood Detention Centre.
She subsequently gave a statement to officers from the Australian Federal Police's human trafficking team and agreed to call Nantahkhum, allegedly also known as ''Pee Tuu'' or ''Tuu''.
During a phone call on July 16 the woman pretended to have returned to Thailand as part of a police subterfuge.
The call was translated from Thai, transcribed and read to the jury yesterday.
Woman: ''I came back and told my older brother. He is very angry and he wants to go to report it to the embassy.''
Tuu: ''Report about what?''
Woman: ''Many things that happened in the past, about too much work that I had to do and about too much debt that I had to pay.''
Tuu: ''Oh, are you going to play with me like this?''
Woman: ''I do not know. You did it to me first.''
The alleged victim accused Nantahkhum of telling her she would be servicing three or four clients a day ''but it turned out to be 10''.
Tuu: ''Were you willing to do that?''
Woman: ''That was right because once I arrived, I had to do it.'' Tuu: ''Did I force you?'' Woman: ''Once I had arrived I had to do it.'' Tuu: ''Did I force you?'' Woman: ''Once I arrived I had to do it. You did it to me. I do not understand why you had to do what you did to me.''
Nantahkhum denied refusing the complainant permission to see a doctor and argued she came to Australia of her own volition.
''From what you have got, I really wish that you will be ruined and wrecked for what you are thinking like this about me,'' the accused said during the conversation.
In a second conversation the defendant told the woman the police would never believe her, and threatened to ''countersue'' for ''talking about me like this''.
Police also recorded Nantahkhum speaking to her sister, Aneknun Nantahkhum, about the allegations on several occasions.
The court has heard Aneknun Nantahkhum ran a Bangkok massage parlour and facilitated the entry of the two women to Australia on fraudulently obtained visas.
During the telephone conversations the sisters accused the alleged victim of lying.
The alleged victim has previously told the court Nantahkhum offered her the money after she was detained at Villawood to keep her mouth shut and return to Thailand.
The trial before Justice Richard Refshauge continues today.
