A woman allegedly raped by two men has rejected a barrister's suggestion she had a ''plan'' to ingratiate herself with one of the defendants.
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She was forced to defend herself during cross-examination from a barrister representing one of the men on trial in the ACT Supreme Court on charges of rape and committing acts of indecency on her while she was heavily intoxicated at a Red Hill home in March 2012.
Michael Morris, 22, of Red Hill, and Matthew Holloway, 22, of Bonython, have both pleaded not guilty to the allegations.
The men admit they had sex with her and the case hinges on whether it was consensual. Morris has admitted he committed an act of indecency when he filmed the sex on his laptop, which he deleted almost immediately.
The woman says the two men rigged a drinking game they were involved in in her bedroom so she would drink more, which caused her to feel unwell and lose control of her body. She later blacked out.
She said the two men repeatedly raped her.
The court heard she said nothing, could not resist other than to turn her head away, and had been frightened she would be hurt.
Under cross-examination by Morris' barrister, Jack Pappas, the woman admitted she had been keen to become the defendant's girlfriend and wanted to get to know him better.
But she denied she developed a ''cunning'' and ''conniving'' plan to ingratiate herself with the Red Hill man, which included a public post on a common friend's social media page to convey to Morris her interest.
''There was no plan,'' the woman said.
The trial, before Chief Justice Helen Murrell, continues on Monday.