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MELBOURNE, Aus. — A Melbourne paramedic who will stand trial over the alleged rape of a drug-affected patient told police he was trying to stop the woman masturbating and may have brushed her unintentionally.
Melbourne Ambulance Service officer Simon Howe, 32, of Werribee, and a colleague, picked up the woman from Little Collins Street in Melbourne’s CBD just before 6.30am (AEDT) on November 5 last year.
The woman, who cannot be identified, had recently consumed ice and speed at the nearby Bubble Nightclub and had her drink spiked with GHB (gamma-hydroxy butyrate), the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court was told today.
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