A 35-year-old woman told a court yesterday that waking up beside a man she had met only the previous night made her feel disgusted and trashy.
The woman alleges the man raped her in his Wellington flat after spiking her drink in a bar.
Yesterday, the High Court at Wellington was cleared of the public while she gave evidence.
Glenn William Hooker, aged 30, self-employed, has pleaded not guilty to sexual violation by rape. He denies drugging the woman, saying the sex was consensual.
The woman said Hooker approached her in a central city street about 11.30 pm on February 18, after she had attended a work function.
He introduced himself as Glenn, said he was from Auckland and asked about the local nightlife.
He was tidily dressed and well spoken, and they went to some bars where he bought her champagne.
They got on well, having a similar religious background, and he told her his father was a pastor.
She remembered thinking in one bar that the champagne bubbles looked soapy, but the drink tasted normal.
The prosecution alleges that Hooker spiked the drink with the drug clonazepam, which can cause sleepiness and amnesia.
The woman said they danced and she was euphoric and uninhibited in a way she had never felt before.
Then she began to feel sleepy and remembered getting into a taxi.
She was shocked to wake up in the morning naked in Hooker's bed.
He told her they had sex the night before after a frolic in his spa pool.
"I said, 'Why can't I remember ... This is just crazy.' He made no response."
Hooker then drove her home.
Although they exchanged telephone numbers, she never rang him because it slowly dawned on her that something sinister had happened. After discussions with friends, she complained to police on February 27.
During cross-examination by defence lawyer Donald Stevens, she agreed that Hooker had seemed like a perfect gentleman that night and the next morning when he made her breakfast.
She had initially blamed herself, thinking she had drunk too much, but then realised this was wrong. Never before had she experienced such symptoms, including numbness and green urine.
She denied that a friend had put the idea of drug-rape into her mind and that she had latched on to it as an excuse for her behaviour.
- NZPA
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