Tinder date accused of ‘slipping MDMA into young woman’s drink and raping her’ after a night out left an apologetic post-it note, court hears
- Brisbane man denied spiking and raping 33-year-old after meeting on dating app
- Jon Gurney is facing court over alleged incident involving woman in 2019
- Woman claims they kissed a few times then fell asleep in the same bed: court
- She then alleges he slipped MDMA into her drink
A Brisbane man has denied spiking a 33-year-old woman’s drink and raping her after the pair met using a dating app.
Jon Dennis Gurney faced Brisbane District Court on Monday on the first day of his trial on two charges of rape and one charge of administering an unknown drug intending to commit a sexual act.
Jurors are expected to hear from six witnesses over the woman’s interaction with Gurney over two weeks in October and November 2019, prosecutor Michael Andronicus said in his opening.
Jon Dennis Gurney allegedly raped a woman he met on Tinder. A court heard she found a post-it note reading ‘sorry babe’
The single woman met Gurney on Tinder, communicating via the application for three or four days before meeting on October 28.
She says they ‘hit it off’ and talked and kissed a few times before falling asleep in the same bed, Mr Andronicus said.
Over the next few days the pair met for drinks and had consensual sex twice, and the woman gave Gurney a mobile phone when he said his was smashed or broken, the Crown told the court.
In return he promised $350, but claimed he couldn’t access cash that day, Mr Andronicus said.
‘Things took a turn for the worse’ when the pair were drinking together on November 1.
The woman claims Gurney told her it was ‘time for some fun’ when they got home as he had slipped MDMA into her drink, the court heard
She was left alone for about 20 minutes before finding Gurney at the bar.
‘She recalled seeing he was high-five-ing everybody and buying drinks for people,’ Mr Andronicus told jurors.
When the woman confronted him, Gurney pushed her against the bar and told her to ‘f*** off’, he said in the opening.
The single woman met Gurney on Tinder, communicating via the application for three or four days before meeting on October 28 last year, the court heard
‘He told her he had been in a fight and to leave him alone,’ the prosecutor added.
Mr Andronicus said the pair agreed to have a last drink – which the woman says she skolled – before getting into an Uber.
The woman claims Gurney told her it was ‘time for some fun’ when they got home as he had slipped MDMA into her drink.
At her house he walked into her bedroom saying she was ‘going to pay’ and ‘nobody makes a fool out of me’ before raping her, Mr Andronicus told the court.
After Gurney had left the woman found ‘Sorry babe’ written on a post-it note.
The alleged rape was reported to police more than a week later when the woman went to the Redcliffe Hospital.
At her house he walked into her bedroom saying she was ‘going to pay’ and ‘nobody makes a fool out of me’ before raping her, Mr Andronicus told the court
In body-worn camera footage played to the court the sobbing woman tells police Gurney said she ‘deserved it’ when she yelled at him.
‘I was screaming out in pain’, she says.
The court was told that messages between the two will form part of the evidence before the jury.
The trial before Judge Michael Rackemann continues.
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