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| Rory Best 'was told to attend rape trial' | Rory Best 'was told to attend rape trial' |
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| Ireland captain Rory Best attended a rape trial in Belfast last week because he was told to by a barrister involved in the case, the court has been told. | Ireland captain Rory Best attended a rape trial in Belfast last week because he was told to by a barrister involved in the case, the court has been told. |
| Mr Best attended the trial of Ulster teammates Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding on Wednesday. | Mr Best attended the trial of Ulster teammates Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding on Wednesday. |
| The players both deny raping a woman in Belfast in June 2016. | The players both deny raping a woman in Belfast in June 2016. |
| Judge Patricia Smyth told the jury "the only reason" that Rory Best attended the trial was that "he was directed to be here by senior counsel". | Judge Patricia Smyth told the jury "the only reason" that Rory Best attended the trial was that "he was directed to be here by senior counsel". |
| "I want to make it absolutely clear to you - and clear to the public - the only reason why Mr Rory Best was in this court last week was because he was directed to be here by senior counsel," said the judge. | "I want to make it absolutely clear to you - and clear to the public - the only reason why Mr Rory Best was in this court last week was because he was directed to be here by senior counsel," said the judge. |
| "That's the only reason why he was here. And as a jury, you should know that." | "That's the only reason why he was here. And as a jury, you should know that." |
| At the trial on Monday, the 21-year-old woman at the centre of the case agreed that her first kiss with Mr Jackson in the bedroom of a Belfast house was consensual but said that did not mean she consented to anything else. | |
| Under cross examination by his defence barrister, she rejected a suggestion that Mr Jackson left the room first because he "became tired" of her teasing. | |
| She said she went downstairs after he tried to undo her trousers. She had already told the jury that she returned to the room to get her bag and claimed she was then raped. | |
| Asked if this began with a second consensual kiss, she said: "That's completely incorrect." | |
| Mr Jackson "wasn't taking no for an answer", she said. | |
| "Everything about me was saying no physically. | |
| "You cannot underestimate how scared you are in those situations." | |
| When the barrister suggested this was "mutual sexual touching", she said that was "completely incorrect". | |
| The lawyer asked why, when Stuart Olding opened the door, did she not ask for help. | |
| "Because it was obvious what Stuart Olding's intention was as well," she replied. | |
| She denied that she "motioned" towards Mr Olding and then performed oral sex on him. | |
| "That was not how it worked out," she told the court, repeating that the sex was "non-consensual". |