A European backpacker who was allegedly kidnapped, raped and held against her will in an old pig shed in regional South Australia says she thought she would die during the ordeal.
The 26-year-old woman on Friday continued her evidence in the District Court trial of Gene Charles Bristow, 54.
The court has heard Bristow answered an advertisement she posted on Gumtree looking for temporary farm work in February 2017.
The woman said he offered her a job and picked her up from a bus stop at Murray Bridge, before driving her to his property at Meningie, 150km southeast of Adelaide.
She said he took her inside a disused pig shed and asked to check the soles of her feet for needle marks, then placed a gun to her back.
He bound her hands and feet and chained her to the ground before leaving her alone in the shed.
"I was feeling terrible and I would think about my family a lot," she told the court.
"I thought I wouldn't see them again and that I would die."
She described to jurors how she eventually managed to free her hands, and used her laptop to contact friends and family.
Fearing retribution from Bristow, she then re-shackled herself and waited for him to return.
"He told me several times that he would shoot me if I would run off," she said.
"He told me that the snakes were very dangerous there and that they would bite you."
Jurors heard she had asked Bristow to release her, but he said he was working with others and couldn't free her or "the numbers wouldn't be correct".
The following morning, she said Bristow told her he could let her go because his colleague had picked up another girl who could be her replacement.
Prosecutors say she was released later that day when Bristow checked her into a motel, and she was then discovered by police.
Bristow has pleaded not guilty to charges including aggravated kidnapping and rape.
The woman's evidence continues.
