Woman describes alleged 'Tinder date' gang rape

Adam Kabbout met a woman on Tinder and is accused of facilitating three other men to rape her. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

A woman claims she was forced to have sex with three men after meeting another on Tinder, but their lawyers say she is lying about consent.

Giving evidence at Sydney's Downing Centre District Court on Wednesday, the woman told a jury she cried as the men raped her one by one.

“I said I didn’t want to. I didn't want to do it,” the woman told the court.

Rami Katlan departs the Downing Centre District Court in
Lawyers for Rami Katlan and his co-accused say the sex with a woman was consensual.

Omar El-Sayed, 26, Rami Katlan, 26 and Mohammed Ali, 22, have pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual intercourse without consent and two counts of aggravated sexual assault in company.

Adam Ahamd Kabbout, 27, who the woman had initially met on the dating app, is also facing charges as the alleged crimes' facilitator, despite there being no allegation he engaged in sexual activity with the woman himself.

He has pleaded not guilty to six counts of aggravated sexual assault in company.

Prosecutors allege that in the early hours of April 16, 2022 the woman met Kabbout at her apartment at Belmore, in southwest Sydney.

The woman told the court after kissing Kabbout on her bed for some time, she went to take a shower in an ensuite bathroom.

When she emerged, the woman says she found El-Sayed, Katlan and Ali in her living room.

The woman said she asked Kabbout, ‘Who are they? What are they doing here?' and told him she wanted the men to leave.

Mohammed Ali leaves the Downing Centre District Court
After allegedly being raped by Mohammed Ali, the woman said she repeated she wanted the men gone.

Instead, the woman claims the three men she had never met entered the bedroom one by one and raped her, despite her repeated objections.

"I said that I didn’t want to do it, but I was scared so I did it," the woman told the court.

The woman said Kabbout would come in and out of the room while she was having sex with the other men.

"He would just watch what we were doing. He would just come and look," she told the court. 

After allegedly being raped by Ali, the woman says she again told Kabbout she wanted the men to leave.

"He said, 'OK, your loss’, and then they left," the woman told the court.

Lawyers for the men said it was not in dispute that El-Sayed, Katlan and Ali all had sex with the woman, but they dismissed her version of events as untruthful.

Omar El-Sayed
Omar El-Sayed initially denied having sex as he was engaged to be married, his lawyer said.

Ali's lawyer Julia-Ann Hickleton said the woman told police that after the men left she curled herself into a ball and cried before eventually falling asleep.

“Heart-wrenching if it was true, but it’s not," Ms Hickleton said.

"It is a deliberate and calculated lie.”

El-Sayed's lawyer James Trevallion said his client initially denied having sex with the woman when questioned by police as at the time he was engaged to be married.

"After that night he felt ashamed and embarrassed," he said.

"He was about to get married. He cheated on his fiancee.”

Kabbout's lawyer April Francis told jurors they might not be familiar with the “anonymity of intimacy” involved with Tinder and online dating in general.

"People can lie or misrepresent the true state of affairs for all sorts of reasons," she said.

"Sometimes the reasons never become apparent.” 

The trial continues.

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