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She said that when she refused, Coleman said, "Fine, I'll just keep
it", but she responded, "No, wait," because she was scared Coleman
wouldn't help her with the complaint about her ex-boyfriend.
Coleman's trial is expected to last up to three weeks.Credit: Rhett
Wyman
She asked if she could leave after doing the sexual act "for a
minute," and he said yes, so she put her phone timer on for one minute
and performed the act.
After that, she said Coleman asked to have sex "for one minute", and
she agreed because she "at least wanted to have some control".
"He could see that I didn't want to, and he didn't care," she said.
"I'm just looking at him horrified like I just couldn't believe it,"
she said, saying she put her timer on for another minute and had sex
with him so she could leave.
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"He started moaning, and I left myself there until the timer went
off," she told the court while crying.
She said she took the $70 on the table before leaving because she was
"pissed".
During cross-examination late on Wednesday, defence barrister Joel
Brook suggested the woman was either unable to remember or was making
up what happened during the three times she met Coleman at the police
station because her evidence did not match her police statement.
"I suggest your memory isn't particularly good as you sit here today,"
he said, to which the woman said: "My memory is fine".
"Are you just making it up as you go along when you talk about that
March 2, 2022 meeting?" Brooke asked after pointing out there were
conversations mentioned in the police statement that were not included
in her court evidence. The woman denied this.
Brook told the court Coleman kept the police meetings professional
until the woman brought up having an interview at a strip club and a
conversation about escorting. The woman said she told Coleman about
the strip club because Coleman asked what she was doing on the
weekend.
"You agree that auditions at strip clubs had nothing to do with
anything Mr Coleman was investigating for you," Brook asked, to which
the woman agreed.
Brook asked why she invited him to watch her dance at a strip club
before any of the alleged sexual touching took place. She said he had
already said inappropriate things to her, and inviting him to the
strip club was a way to keep the situation under control because the
visitors couldn't touch the workers.
The woman's cross-examination will continue Thursday.
Coleman was arrested on May 20, 2022, and stood down from the force in
September of that year.
He has pleaded not guilty to three counts of sexual intercourse
without consent, six counts of sexual touching without consent and one
count of abusing his position of public office to procure the woman
for his own sexual gratification.
Brook told the court his client denies "he ever sexually touched or
had sexual intercourse with the complainant without her free or wilful
consent".
The trial before Judge Robert Montgomery continues.
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