A high-profile lawyer representing Wallabies star Kurtley Beale has slammed his accuser as being “manipulative” and a “very good actress” after sexual assault allegations.
Mr Beale, 35, is facing a jury trial at Sydney’s Downing Centre Court after pleading not guilty to sexual intercourse without consent and two counts of sexual touching.
Police allege Mr Beale groped a woman’s bottom at the Beach Road bar in Bondi on December 17, 2022, before forcing her into oral sex in the stall of the men’s bathroom.
In her closing address on Thursday, Mr Beale’s lawyer, Margaret Cunnen SC, told the jury sexual assault was “distasteful and repugnant”, but her client was not guilty.
“What is also terrible is a false allegation of sexual assault, a false allegation made to try and change the dynamic in one’s own difficult time in life,” Ms Cunneen said.
“I don’t shrink from…
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