REVEALED: The texts Jack de Belin's co-accused sent moments after learning a teenager they spent the night with told police she was raped - as their friend claims alleged victim 'didn't struggle'
NRL star Jack de Belin took teammate Jai Field aside at training and discussed his encounter with a teenage woman accusing him of rape, a court has heard.
De Belin, 29, and teammate Callan Sinclair, 23, are accused of sexually assaulting the woman, then 19, in a North Wollongong unit early on a Sunday in December 2018.
Both men have pleaded not guilty, saying all sexual contact was consensual.
The trial was told on Tuesday that St George Illawarra Dragons star de Belin and Field spoke privately at training the next day, with Field later relaying to police what he'd been told.
'She took her top off, and they slept together and were changing positions,' Field said he'd been told.
'There was no sign of her saying no.'
Jack de Belin and Dragons teammate Callan Sinclair are accused of sexually assaulting a woman
Matthew Clune, who was with de Belin and Sinclair on the night of the incident, messaged the alleged victim after finding out she had gone to police, the court heard. He later texted Sinclair , saying it was 'so suss' the woman went back out to the nightclub
Field, who gave evidence on Tuesday in the Wollongong District Court, qualified his statement by saying he couldn't recall de Belin's exact words.
He said the conversation also covered the trio's time outside Fever Nightclub after the alleged incident.
De Belin had said he began getting attention from people exiting the club, leading the woman to also joke he was famous and 'can she get a photo as well'.
Field had been partying with the trio earlier in the night before he and another man, Matthew Clune, left the group and headed to Fever.
The next day, the court heard Mr Clune sent a text message to the woman after speaking to Sinclair and learning she had gone to police to report the alleged rape.
'Hey … heard some talk about last night, everything OK?,' he wrote, the Daily Telegraph reported.
'I'm not OK, what happened last night was not OK,' the woman replied.
Crown prosecutor David Scully SC also read the court a separate message exchange between Sinclair and Mr Clune that took place in the days after the alleged rape.
'so suss how she went back to Fever with yous ,' Mr Clune wrote to Sinclair.
'that's it, you can't claim you've been raped and not even struggle or anything and then go back into town,' he wrote in a separate text.
De Belin and teammate Jai Field spoke privately at training the next day. Field said de Belin told him 'she took her top off, and they slept together and were changing positions'
The trial heard that Sinclair, de Belin and the woman caught a tuk-tuk to the unit in North Wollongong after parting ways with Mr Field and Mr Clune.
Tuk-tuk operator Gary Poort said de Belin said 'trust me' before directing to the bottom of the hill the unit was on.
Told in no uncertain words Mr Poort wouldn't ride up the hill, the trio hopped out and de Belin paid $50.
'They were going up to the unit and I heard distinctly, the girl say 'f***',' Mr Poort said.
'I remember the exact words 'f*** are we'.'
The woman alleges she only entered the unit to use the bathroom but was confronted by de Belin and then assaulted by both men in an adjoining bedroom.
Both men then took turns and cheered each other on, the woman told the court.
The court has heard that after learning the next morning about the woman's allegations from friends, Sinclair messaged her and said 'everything was consensual'.
The trial continues.
The woman alleges she only entered the unit to use the bathroom but was confronted by de Belin and then assaulted by both men (Sinclair left)
