The four men were each convicted of multiple counts of rape over the brutal assault.
Gareth James Doran, Steven Zevengergen, Joshua Bruce Butler and Leon James Sealey appealed their rape convictions, arguing the jury’s verdicts were unreasonable based on the available evidence and their victim was an unreliable witness.
He turned up with two other men — Doran and Sealey — and they smoked meth and took fantasy with her and another man whom the woman had been having consensual sex with.The woman went to sleep, but was woken by Zevengergen rubbing her vagina. She pushed him away and tried to call the other man, who had left the motel.
Doran put his hand over her mouth while Zevenbergen raped her, before Doran put his penis in her mouth.Sealey was raping the woman when there was a knock on the motel room door.The motel manager and the man she was previously with were at the door.Police were called and the woman was hospitalised for several days for bleeding and pain. She noticed in the hospital that one of the men had drawn a Nazi swastika on her stomach with a Sharpie during the incident.
However Court of Appeal Justice Philip Morrison noted that those issues were put to the jury and was up to them to determine if they would “ accept the evidence of the complainant”.
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