Colin Jack Mitchell has pleaded not guilty to charges of abduction, wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and assault with intent to commit sexual violation. Photo / File
Colin Jack Mitchell has pleaded not guilty to charges of abduction, wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and assault with intent to commit sexual violation. Photo / File
A man accused of kidnapping a 23-year-old woman and assaulting her at a West Auckland quarry says he did not attack her and police have simply got the wrong man.
Colin Jack Mitchell is on trial for the abduction and assault of the woman in the early hours of February26 last year.
She was walking home through Grey Lynn following a night out with friends at the annual Pride Parade when Mitchell allegedly kidnapped her and drove her 25km to a stone quarry at Riverhead.
Mitchell is on trial in the High Court at Auckland before Justice Sally Fitzgerald.
He has pleaded not guilty to charges of abduction, wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and assault with intent to commit sexual violation.
The Crown opened its case against Mitchell this morning.
They say numerous "strands" of evidence including DNA found on a glove at the scene and CCTV footage they claim shows Mitchell's car near the victim just before she was kidnapped and at the scene of the assault make it clear he was the assailant.
