A young part-time model accused of having participated in the pack rape of a German backpacker in the early hours of New Year’s Day last year insisted to police that he didn’t remember having sex with her – or many other details of that morning. It had been the 19-year-old’s first time drinking when he turned up at Family Bar on Auckland’s Karangahape Rd and met the woman, he explained when police arrested him four days after the incident. “So then we went to nightclub ... But we did little dance, or something? I don’t remember too much. And I met a female,” said the defendant, referred to in public court documents only as “B” due to his ongoing name suppression. “After dancing, we did some kissing, something. I really don’t remember that night. I just remember little bit of that night.” He added, after a pause: “So I didn’t rape anybody. Really, I didn’t rape. Yeah, I remember I didn’t rape.” Jurors began watching the two-hour recorded interview, in which B communicated through broken English but was aided at times by an interpreter, on Friday afternoon. It concluded this morning, as the second and likely final week of the High Court at Auckland trial began. B is on trial beside friends O and S, who also have name suppression. Prosecutors have alleged the trio made a joint plan to rape the 19-year-old complainant after she got into a van with the men outside the K Rd nightclub. She either explicitly didn’t consent to sex with the men or was too intoxicated to have given consent, the Crown said during last week’s opening address. The woman, in her own recorded police interview three days before B’s arrest, sobbed as she recalled emerging from a blackout to find one of the men on top of her in the middle of intercourse. Nightclub expulsion B told police he had gone into Auckland’s City Centre around 6 or 7pm on New Year’s Eve and started drinking in a car park hours before arriving at the club. The woman had also started drinking hours earlier with friends from the backpacker’s lodge where they were staying. When the two later met on the dancefloor, they did kiss consentually, prosecutors acknowledged. The woman said she had no memory of it but acknowledged CCTV footage showed her doing so. B said security at the club had kicked them out because they were kissing and groping too much. Family Bar has been in operation on Auckland's Karangahape Rd for over 20 years. Photo / NZME “So my friend brought the car to us, drove to where we were standing,” he recalled. “Then we did some kissing in the car. I cannot recall or remember where we were heading to.” He later recalled dropping off the woman somewhere then going back to a car park where they had been drinking with friends prior to the nightclub. “When I woke up, I was at home. I don’t remember,” he said, adding that it was about 2pm on New Year’s Day. But CCTV tracked down by police showed the van with the three defendants and the woman driving 18 minutes away from the club to an empty carpark behind an industrial building in Avondale. Jurors watched the video several more times on Friday, including zoomed-in and enhanced versions. Prosecutors allege the video shows all three men taking turns raping the woman, with B seen circling around the vehicle in partial states of undress before trading places with the driver so he could take a turn. The woman was later dropped outside her backpacker’s lodge, with prosecutors suggesting she was pushed out of the vehicle in a final act of cruelty. ‘Something’s not right’ Gisella Perez, who was also staying at the hostel, recalled to jurors via an audio-video feed from Argentina how she saw the van stopped next to the kerb as she was returning from a work shift that morning. “I saw a very young girl getting off abruptly,” she said through a Spanish interpreter. “She was wearing a tight black dress and she looked quite sweaty and her hair was messy.” The witness recalled making eye contact with a man inside the vehicle. “It was very...