Navy officer filmed alleged rapes: court

A Royal Australian Navy sailor accused of raping a female member of the defence force filmed the alleged assaults in an act of sheer stupidity, a court has heard.
Keith Eric Calvert, 24, was filmed giving the thumbs up after allegedly raping the woman at a house in Melbourne following a night of drinking and a game of truth or dare.
Prosecutor Gavin Silbert SC told a Victorian County Court jury the woman was raped several times at the East Brunswick home after a night out at Crown Casino with Calvert and a group of five other defence colleagues on January 23, 2009.
Earlier in the evening the woman had stripped to her bra and underwear during a game of truth or dare, but dived under a table to hide when she realised she was being filmed, Mr Silbert said.
He alleged Calvert indecently assaulted then raped the woman four times while she was asleep and intoxicated, filming his actions.
Calvert, who was stationed at HMAS Cerberus at the time of the alleged offences, admits he had sex with the woman but argues it was consensual.
Mr Silbert said the woman had no idea what happened until three months later, when a colleague revealed he had seen sexually explicit images of the woman and Calvert.
Mr Silbert said although a number of men were present that night, they claimed not to remember many of the evening's events.
He told the jury they should question whether the men had "put their heads together" in order to "close the matter down".
The footage taken by Calvert, played to the jury in a closed court room on Tuesday, was significant to the trial, Mr Silbert said in his opening remarks.
"The sheer stupidity of videoing what happened on the night provides an objective and independent account of what occurred," he said.
Mr Silbert said Calvert, when interviewed by police, admitted having consensual sex with the alleged victim but said he stopped when she kicked him.
"'When she kicked me, that's when I realised she didn't want to'," Mr Silbert said Calvert told police.
He also told police at one point the woman got up from a couch and appeared disoriented, saying "Where am I, where am I, what's going on?" Mr Silbert said.
Defence lawyer David Sexton said any suggestion the victim was not consenting was "utterly disputed".
He said the issue was whether she was awake or asleep, or grossly intoxicated.
Mr Sexton also rejected Mr Silbert's assertion that the other men present that night reached an agreement to deliberately not recall any events.
"Any suggestion that there has been any collusion, getting people's heads together, (is) absolutely disputed in this case," he said.
Calvert has pleaded not guilty to one count of indecent assault and four counts of rape.
The trial before Judge Michael Tinney continues on Wednesday.