A man accused of raping a woman he met on the dating app Tinder took a photo of the sunrise on his way out of her apartment, a court has heard.
Rogerio Luiz De Souza Correia, 33, is on trial in the New South Wales District Court charged with six counts of aggravated sexual assault and inflicting actual bodily harm.
In his opening address, Crown prosecutor Gareth Harrison told the jury Mr Correia and the 29-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, first met on the Tinder app in 2016.
They messaged on and off for the next five weeks before the woman invited Mr Correia, who is Brazilian, to a party at her apartment.
When he arrived at 1:30am the party was wrapping up so they caught a taxi to The Strawberry Hills Hotel in Surry Hills to keep drinking.
Around 5:00am the pair returned to the woman's apartment.
"The next thing she remembers is being in the kitchen and he had hold of her by the upper arms," Mr Harrison told the jury.
"He was kissing her, forcing his tongue into her mouth ... he didn't let her go and pushed her to the kitchen floor."
The Crown alleges Mr Correia then had sexual intercourse with the woman using his penis and hands and that she repeatedly said "no" while trying to push him away.
"It was without [the woman's] consent and he knew she was not consenting," Mr Harrison said.
"She was terrified at this stage, she tried to reason with the accused and in order to get him to stop she said 'We should move to the bedroom where there is more space' ... [but] she ran into the hall and used her mobile phone to call police."
'That's what the Tinder app is for'
Mr Harrison told the jury members they would be shown photographs of bruises on the woman's body and DNA evidence.
He added that during an interview with police in the days after the alleged incident, the accused said he went to the woman's apartment with the intention of having sex.
"He said he had a feeling she wanted it and that's what the Tinder app is for," Mr Harrison told the court.
In his opening address, defence barrister Troy Anderson said his client was very forthcoming with police and told them that going back to the woman's apartment was "at her instigation as much as it was his".
"He says, 'Yes we did kiss, in the kitchen on the floors, it was consensual but I couldn't get an erection ... before I knew it she was up and she left'," he said.
Mr Anderson added his client was so blasé about what happened he pulled his pants up, took a photo of the sunrise view with his phone, then left.
"As far as he is concerned nothing has gone on that is odd," he said.
"His case is [the woman] did consent and he believed she was consenting."
The trial before Judge Ian McClintock is expected to run for the rest of the week.
