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"The friend of a 16-year-old girl, who has accused former Geraldton junior boxing coach Justin Crudeli of sexually assaulting her twice in his home hot tub, told a jury although she didn&rsquo;t see the alleged attacks, the complainant informed her about them moments after they hopped out of the spa. The second day of the 36-year-old&rsquo;s District Court trial heard from the complainant&rsquo;s friend, also 16 at the time, who was in the spa with Mr Crudeli and the alleged victim at the time. Mr Crudeli&rsquo;s defence lawyer Malcolm Ayoub was also repeatedly reprimanded throughout the day yesterday by Judge Troy Sweeney for his &ldquo;improper form&rdquo; of questioning, which including quizzing the alleged victim about her clothing size, photos posted to her Instagram account of her in &ldquo;underwear&rdquo; and her sexual history. Mr Crudeli, a former boxing coach at Geraldton PCYC, is fighting two counts of aggravated sexual penetration without consent. The complainant is accusing Mr Crudeli of twice penetrating her while they were in the hot tub with her friend at his Rangeway home in June last year. The friend, now 17 and a prosecution witness, said she didn&rsquo;t see what has been alleged because the &ldquo;settings&rdquo; for the jets were on, causing the water to churn, but was told about the assault immediately after she and the alleged victim exited the spa. The alleged victim and her friend said they were picked up from a friend&rsquo;s house by Mr Crudeli in a PCYC van and taken to KFC for lunch, then to his home to eat it while they waited for one of his sons to be picked up by their mother. The trio then went to the beach where the alleged victim and accused went surfing and then back to his home to sit in his new &ldquo;hot tub.&rdquo; The witness said when she and the alleged victim exited the spa her friend looked &ldquo;pale...like the life had gone out of her&rdquo;, and when she asked her what was wrong in the absence of Mr Crudeli the victim said he penetrated her &ldquo;in the spa&rdquo;. She said the pair were driven back to her home by Mr Crudeli where they called the complainant&rsquo;s boyfriend at the time to tell him what happened, with the witness needing to speak on the phone for the victim because she was crying too much to talk. The witness said she asked her friend if she was joking and to &ldquo;bible it&rdquo; &mdash; which she explained was something they asked each other to do to confirm they were telling the truth &mdash; to which the alleged victim responded, &ldquo;bible.&rdquo; During cross examination, both the complainant and witness were questioned by the defence as to why their evidence included the victim &ldquo;pinching&rdquo; her friend as well as splashing her while the assault was allegedly occurring, which was not specified in their police statements. Mr Ayoub asked the witness if that detail had been added to her memory of the event from conversations between the friends after the statements were given, which she denied. She said after the day of the incident they didn&rsquo;t speak in detail about what happened and stopped being friends a month later as it &ldquo;took a toll on their friendship&rdquo;. When asked why she she didn&rsquo;t try to get help or have the pair leave when the complainant shot her a &ldquo;scared&rdquo; look during one of the alleged assaults because she &ldquo;didn&rsquo;t know what to do..&rdquo; &ldquo;We were two 16-year-old girls in a spa with a 36-year-old man,&rdquo; she said. Earlier in the day Mr Ayoub asked the complainant questions including what size top and pants she wore, what her waist measurement was and if she would post pictures of herself in her &ldquo;underwear,&rdquo; which she said were bathers, in front of a mirror on her Instagram account. Judge Sweeney repeatedly reprimanded Mr Ayoub for his questions being asked in an incorrect form, his elevated tone of voice, going on tangents and &ldquo;obsessively&rdquo; clicking his pen. He was also reprimanded for breaching the Evidence Act, with the jury told to disregard a question he asked the complainant regarding her sexual history. The trial continues."
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