The memory of a young woman who has accused a man of raping her after they met outside a club in Civic was tested by the defence in the man's trial on Tuesday.
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The Crown alleges Kerry Roy Bye, 25, took the woman, then 19, in a taxi to his Cook unit after they met outside Cube nightclub early on Friday, November 13, 2015.
The woman told the court on Monday she was about nine out of 10 on a level of drunkenness outside the club that morning, and parts of the night were blacked out.
Bye's defence barrister Ken Archer asked the woman on Tuesday if she had talked to Bye that night about going back to his place.
"That's the reality isn't it, that it wasn't perchance you ended up at his place. That's what you agreed to do?" he said.
"I don't remember a conversation like that," she said.
"But a conversation like that may have been had?"
"Yes, I guess it's possible."
She said she did not remember sitting on the couch in the unit with the man, but conceded it "may have happened".
She said at some point after going inside the unit she had laid down on the bed in the unit and gone to sleep.
Is it possible you simply don't remember, and you have recalled that as going to sleep? Mr Archer asked.
"No."
"Why?"
"Because I remember dreaming. I dreamt I was at another house and I was dreaming that another person was touching me, and I was trying to get them to stop."
Under questioning from Mr Archer, the woman denied she had taken drugs, such as MDMA or ecstasy, that night.
She agreed she had spoken to the accused and another man named "Joe" while outside the club at one point.
Were faces blending into each other outside the club?
"I don't think I'd put it that way," the woman said.
Bye is charged with four counts of rape, two of sexual assault in the second degree, one count of committing an indecent act and one of unlawful confinement.
The eight alleged offences relate to the one woman and a single incident, in the early hours of the Friday morning, on November 13 last year.
The Crown alleges that the man raped her, at one point choking her and pulling her hair, before the woman escaped and was found naked, save for her socks, at the Cook shops car park.