Two men – Panormitis Charalampis and Michael Vrouvis – found a woman collapsed on the ground near a nightclub in the Northern Territory in 2024.
She could not stand up, she could not walk, she was vomiting. Put simply, she was exceedingly drunk. These men picked her up and took her to her apartment.
Over the next eight or so hours, they repeatedly had sex with her. They were eventually charged with rape and recently faced a jury trial.
At the trial, the jury was shown a video of the woman who was incapable of walking and standing. It showed a woman incapable of making decisions because of her level of intoxication.
Their defence argued – despite the video evidence – that the woman was sober enough to make decisions like having sex with two strange men for many hours in her apartment. The defence claims she was unreliable because she had gaps in her memory that were patchy and fragmented. Anyone who has been drunk, knows memory becomes exactly this.
The men claimed this woman – who could not stand up or walk – had the ability to ‘initiate sex with both of them’, that she had buyer’s remorse and that she ‘conceived a different narrative’ because of her regrets. And so the jury voted – choosing unanimously to find the men did not rape her.
Further evidence, that even with video recordings a woman is not believed.
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