Second woman refers to accused’s ‘split personality’
A second woman has described accused rapist Joshua Allan Schooner as having a “split personality” during a sexual encounter.
The 44-year-old woman described a 2011 sexual encounter with the then 24-year-old who is now on trial in the Christchurch District Court on charges of abduction, rape, and sexual violation of another woman in June 2011.
Schooner has denied all charges in the trial before Judge Raoul Neave and a jury. He faces no charge in relation to the second woman who has given evidence about the sexual encounter with him.
Another woman in her 30s yesterday alleged that she was raped by Schooner when she went to his home in Phillipstown after being stranded in a pub carpark at 4am when police took away her car keys because she was on a restricted licence.
Both women alleged that Schooner had raped them by anal intercourse in spite of their protests. They both referred to him having a “split personality” and becoming suddenly aggressive.
The 44-year-old woman said she was living in Christchurch in August 2011. She had met Schooner twice before they exchanged numbers and started contact.
They had spent a day together and got to know each other. “He seemed like a nice guy,” she told the court. She invited him for dinner.
During dinner they talked, and everything was okay. They began kissing and touching, and then, “It was like a twig snapping”. He grabbed her from behind and had anal intercourse with her as she was bent over a coffee table, while she protested and told him to stop. He had “torn me, a lot, and he just didn’t stop”.
She explained that he had gone from a nice, normal, caring guy, to very aggressive. “The next minute it was like he was an animal, literally.”
“It was literally like a split personality – he just changed.”
She said Schooner was very apologetic afterwards.
She had sex with him again the next morning because she was scared.
She was examined by a doctor afterwards, and she later made a complaint to the police. She told the court she had a tear in her anus.
Cross-examined by defence counsel Michael Knowles, she acknowledged that she had withdrawn her complaint to the police a few days after the incident. She said that Schooner had slept in her bed that night, but she denied that that he had stopped the anal intercourse when asked, and they had had consensual intercourse.
She admitted that in Auckland in 1988 she had been prosecuted for making a false complaint of rape.
“I was an attention-seeking 19-year-old,” she said.
Mr Knowles replied: “And now you are an attention-seeking adult.”
She denied that.
Questioned further by Crown prosecutor Deirdre Elsmore, she said she had withdrawn her rape complaint because she had been pressured by another party not to give evidence.
She said Schooner had showered after the anal sex because he was covered with faeces and blood.
Judge Neave explained to the jury that there was no suggestion that the pressure on the woman not to give evidence had come from Schooner or anyone connected with him.
Mr Knowles opened the defence case by saying that the defence was simply that the sexual acts had taken place but that they had been consensual. Schooner would give evidence that everything that took place between them was done willingly. Things had turned sour when he returned from the toilet and found the woman going through his drawers.
Schooner will give his evidence on the third day of the trial on Wednesday. The trial is expected to finish on Thursday.
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