Overview
- The prosecution and defence finished closing submissions Wednesday, setting up jury deliberations in the Northern Territory Supreme Court in Darwin.
- Prosecutor Rebecca Everitt told jurors the men picked up the woman as she waited for an Uber, that CCTV showed her unable to stand without help, and that she was in and out of consciousness.
- An expert estimated the woman's blood alcohol level at roughly 0.1 to 0.2 when she reached her apartment, which the prosecution said would make free agreement impossible.
- The defence said all sex was consensual, argued the men believed she agreed, and questioned her fragmented memory, with Michael Vrouvis's barrister disputing incapacity when he says intercourse occurred later in the morning.
- Panormitis Charalampis testified through a translator that the woman initiated sex and “wasn't that drunk,” while Vrouvis declined to give evidence as the jury weighs capacity and what the men knew.