Jack de Belin arrives at Wollongong court on Friday.Credit:Kate Geraghty
In a third day of gruelling cross-examination,Mr de Belin's barrister David Campbell SC questioned the woman,who cannot be named for legal reasons,on her behaviour at the club and suggested she was"looking fondly"at the star St George Illawarra Dragons NRL player.
Mr Campbell asked the woman if she recalled talking,dancing and cuddling with Mr de Belin before taking his hat. She replied that she didn't recall dancing or cuddling him but"I might have ... I did say I took his hat".
In the footage,Mr de Belin is wearing a wide-brim fedora and his accuser can be seen taking his hat off and putting it on her own head before continuing to dance.
"Can I suggest that at around the same period,which was pretty well midnight,that you were also looking very fondly into his eyes,"Mr Campbell put to her.
She responded:"I don’t remember,it was two years ago. I was dancing,I was having fun,I was a 19-year-old girl. I'm allowed to go out and have a dance."
After viewing the footage,Mr Campbell again said"you’re certainly looking fondly in the direction of Mr De Belin",to which she replied,"I'm smiling,I can't see if my eyes are open or not".
During the Crown's opening statements earlier this week,the court heard the woman left the club with Mr de Belin,29,and Mr Sinclair,23,a Shellharbour Sharks rugby league player,thinking they were going to another club. Instead,she alleges she was taken via tuktuk to Mr de Belin's apartment where the two men took turns switching places to repeatedly rape her.