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Sickening GoPro gang rape trial concludes with jury declaring...
THEY’RE GUILTY
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hree men have been found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage girl at a house party in St Clair in 2015. A jury at the Downing Centre District Court found Tristan Carlyle-Watson, 26, Kurt Stevenson, 26, and Andrew Waters, 25, guilty of ‘aggravated sexual assault in company’. Two other men, including a minor, pleaded guilty to their roles in the sexual assault. The teenage victim, who was 16 at the time of the incident, was unaware she had been raped until footage of the sickening assault was uncovered by police as part of a separate investigation into an unrelated matter.
The footage, recorded on a GoPro camera, provided the jury a graphic insight into what happened on the night in question. At one stage during the video, one of the men can be heard saying, “one by one we will all get a f***.” The defendants claimed the teenager was an active participant in the group sex at the St Clair house, but the Crown argued she was too drunk to consent. It was also suggested the victim may have been drugged via a spiked drink. All three men will remain in custody until they are sentenced in October.
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