Thomas Earle is found guilty of rape and committing an act of indecency after pleading guilty to the crimes.
A Canberra man who raped his ex-girlfriend while they were sleeping in the same bed later sent her a message apologising for "his awful behaviour", a court has heard.The court previously heard Earle had been in a brief relationship with the victim but they had broken upThe victim said she woke up one night to find Earle's hands in her pants and said she was "frozen"
The ACT Supreme Court heard the pair continued to share the same bed several times afterwards, without any sexual activity, following nights out drinking together. The court heard he performed oral sex on her and then intercourse, but there were different accounts from the two about their movements in bed and how they were interpreted.
In response, Earle's lawyer, James Sabharwal, told the jurors it was not what was in his client's mind the following morning when he texted her that mattered, but instead what he was thinking at the time of the sexual acts.
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