ACT Supreme Court jury watches video of police interview with alleged rapist Salvatore Incandela

Salvatore David Incandela, 41, denied being attracted to the woman in a police interview played to the ACT Supreme Court on Thursday.

Mr Incandela has been on trial there since Monday, having pleaded not guilty to a charge of sexual intercourse without consent.

He denies allegations he raped a woman on a dirt track in Spence one afternoon in November 2020.

During his interview with police the following month, Mr Incandela initially denied that he had met the alleged victim, had her in his car, or been to Spence for at least 10 years.

He also rejected suggestions anything sexual had happened with the alleged victim, describing her as "a crackhead or junkie type".

Mr Incandela later told investigators, however, that he had met the woman at the home of one of his friends and driven her home.

He said that on the way there, the woman, aged in her 40s, had made sexual advances towards him and told him to drive to the area in which the dirt track was located.

The concreter strongly denied that any intercourse took place, insisting he had been unable to achieve an erection as the woman "violently" rubbed his genitals.

"My penis was scared and it ran away," he told police.

Mr Incandela later added: "I couldn't get it up, so how did anything occur?"

He also said with "a hundred million per cent" certainty there had been no intercourse whatsoever.

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But in his closing address, Crown prosecutor Trent Hickey urged the jury to find there had been intercourse and that the alleged victim had not consented to it.

Mr Hickey said Mr Incandela had finished the police interview in a very different place to where he had started it, alleging the 41-year-old had told a number of lies that were evidence of his consciousness of guilt.

He also urged the jury to consider how Mr Incandela's account compared to one of two videos taken by a man whose property backed onto the dirt track.

Mr Hickey said the vision appeared to show the accused "vigorously thrusting".

The prosecutor added that the expert medical evidence of a doctor was consistent with the alleged victim's account.

"When you look at all the evidence, can I suggest the only reasonable conclusion is the accused committed the offence he's charged with?" Mr Hickey concluded.

Defence barrister Travis Jackson is due to give his closing address to the jury of 10 men and two women on Friday morning.

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