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Woman ‘woke up with belt around her neck after being gang-raped by three men who dressed her in up in army jacket’
A WOMAN allegedly woke up with a belt tied around her neck after being gang-raped by three men in Sydney who dressed her as a soldier on Anzac Day.
The alleged victim told police she was “passed around by three men” – including a prison guard – during the reported attack on April 25, Australia’s national day of remembrance.
Two of the suspects had been drinking the The Fiddler pub before the alleged attack[/caption]
The alleged victim told police she was ‘passed around’ by three men[/caption]
Glenn Robinson, from Warrimoo, was charged with six counts of aggravated sexual assault in company following the alleged attack.
The 35-year-old suspect served in the Australian army.
It is alleged that he and a friend, 26, were drinking at The Fiddler pub in Rouse Hill during the early hours of April 25 when they invited a woman, 37, back to a property in Riverstone.
Police said the alleged victim told how she woke up on a couch while one of the men was still having sex with her, with a belt tied around her neck, reports the Blacktown Advocate.
She told officers she was “passed around by three men who had sex with her in multiple ways, either at the same time or individually while the others were watching”.
Magistrate James Gibson told the court: “At one point she was dressed up like an Anzac in a navy blue army jacket.”
Robinson’s defence lawyer said the matter of consent was the pivotal issue, but police prosecutor Adam Young alleged the woman’s drunken state meant she would not have been in a position to consent to any kind of sexual encounter.
The court was told that the woman had suffered pelvic pain after the alleged incident and attended hospital.
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Robinson was denied bail during the hearing at Penrith Local Court on Tuesday, with his lawyer requesting he be placed in protective custody due to his job as a correction officer at Francis Greenaway Correctional Complex – which he has been suspended from indefinitely.
He could be jailed for up to 20 years if found guilty, with the case due to return to court in July.
Police have confirmed that another man from New South Wales has been charged and a third suspect, 31, was arrested in Queensland in connection.
