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Reid trial begins to consider Dunedin sex attack
The crown has moved on to evidence relating to a sex attack on a 21-year-old Dunedin student, on the fourth day of the High Court trial of Liam James Reid on charges of murder, attempted murder, and rape.
The crown alleges it was Reid who attacked the woman as she walked alone in central Dunedin early on November 24, dragging her into bushes near a carpark where it says she was raped, sexually violated, robbed and an attempt was made to murder her.
An employee at a central city office told of calling at the office at 12.30am on November 24 to pick up his bicycle after an evening out with workmates.
As he entered he saw a man and woman standing in the shadows in an alcove of the building. He only saw them briefly.
?There was no sign of any violence or screaming. No sound at all,? said the man, Peter Van Nugteren.
Kristy Drinnan, a staff member at a central city Night and Day store on the corner of George Street and St Andrew Street, told of a man coming into the store at 3am that day.
She described a tattoo on his neck and she pointed out Reid in court.
She said he was wearing a t-shirt and he didn?t seem drunk. ?He had dirt all over the front of his shirt,? she said.
The court was played the security camera footage showing the man?s visit to the store, where he bought a cellphone top-up card.
Reid is charged with raping and murdering Emma Agnew near Christchurch, nine days before the Dunedin attack. The defence says it was not the 36-year-old who carried out either attack.
