A court has heard that a woman allegedly raped by AFL player Andrew Lovett told her friend a dark skinned man had sex with her while she was sleeping.
Lovett, 27, is charged with raping a woman at an apartment in Port Melbourne on Christmas Eve last year and is facing a pre-trial committal proceeding. He has been sacked from his AFL club St Kilda.
Lovett and then-teammate Jason Gram had been drinking with the woman and her friend, who both cannot be named for legal reasons, at a Richmond hotel.
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The court heard that the four then took a taxi back to Gram's Port Melbourne apartment.
The woman's friend today told a committal hearing that Gram helped her put the alleged victim on a bed after a short time at the apartment.
She said that when she went back to check on the alleged victim she found Lovett leaving the room with his shirt off, and the alleged victim was not in the room.
The friend said she found the alleged victim near the front entrance of the apartment in the foetal position, hysterical and crying.
"She said: `I was asleep and he pumped the s*** out of me'," the friend told the court.
She said while she could not remember the exact words, the alleged victim later told her the man was "black".
Gram told the court Lovett told him the sex was consensual.
The court heard Lovett broke down and said: "This is f***ed. I would never do that," when confronted by Gram with the rape allegation.
The committal hearing is expected to continue until Friday.
