'She couldn't move': friend tells of finding model after alleged Lovett rape

A model who accuses former AFL footballer Andrew Lovett of raping her was so drunk she was unable to move, a court has heard.
The woman's friend said she tried to get the victim to leave the Port Melbourne apartment before the alleged rape, but she was unable to drag her friend off the bed where she had placed her to sober up.
The pair went to the apartment with St Kilda player Jason Gram and Lovett, whom they had met earlier at the Royal Saxon Hotel in Richmond on Christmas Eve 2009.

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In the taxi on the way to the apartment, the victim said repeatedly that she was feeling really drunk, sick and wanted water, her friend said.
At the apartment, after laying her friend down to rest, she later grabbed her by the ankles and tugged, urging her to get up to leave.
"She clearly couldn't move," the woman told Lovett's rape trial in the Victorian County Court on Thursday.
The woman said her friend told her, in slurred speech: "I can't move."
"I couldn't pick her up and move her," the woman told the court.
She said she told Gram and Lovett, who were both in the room, to leave her friend to rest and the pair would leave in half an hour.
The woman said she and Gram then left the room, but Lovett did not leave with them.
When the model's friend returned to the room later, her friend was gone, the woman said.
She found her by the front door to the apartment, crying.
"She was in the foetal position, whimpering and crying," the woman told the court.
When she asked her friend what happened, the victim replied: "I was asleep, I said no."
The model later said: "He raped me, and I said no."
The woman said her friend told her that when she said no, Lovett replied: "Why not? You're a sexy bitch."
She said her friend also told her that Lovett had pushed her phone away from her in the bedroom when she tried to make a call.
Under cross-examination from Lovett's lawyer, David Grace QC, the woman admitted that she had urged the victim to go out that night and let her hair down.
She agreed that the mood in the hotel and in the cab on the way to the apartment had been "jovial".
Lovett has pleaded not guilty to rape and argues the sex was consensual.
The trial before Judge Meryl Sexton is continuing.


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