Crown prosecutor Trisha McCarthy days DNA and other evidence is enough to convict accused rapist Sofyan Boalag but defence lawyer Jeff Brace says there is reasonable doubt.

McCarthy was the first lawyer to present final summations Thursday as Boalag's trial began wrapping up at provincial court in St. John's.

The first complainant was just 15-years-old when she said a man, with a mole on his face, threatened to kill her, choked her, then raped her.

McCarthy reminded the court that the girl testified she nearly had a panic attack when she saw Boalag on the news, and realized he was her attacker.

When Brace gave his summations, he said the girl had texted a friend hours before speaking of rape.

He said that speaks of her fabricating the story.

Phone stolen

The second woman met a man outside a bar on George Street, then again near the Supreme Court on Water Street.

She told the court that same man confronted her near St. Bonaventure's school, put a knife to her throat and ordered her to remove her clothes.

He took her money and purse, she testified. When police arrested Boalag, he had a BlackBerry containing photos of the woman. She said it was her phone, which he stole the night of the rape.

The woman noted that the rapist's voice sounded as if it was of Arabic origin.

The second complainant pointed Boalag out in a photo line up, which led to him becoming a suspect in a string of sexual assaults in the city in the fall of 2012.

Brace said not all complainants picked Boalag out in a photo line up and that one of the women said her attacker was white.

Complainants were shown a police line up, including photos of Sofyan Boalag, to help identify their attacker. (Glenn Payette/CBC)

The third woman testified she met a man near Supreme Court around 3:30 a.m., before he asked her to go to his house to get his wallet.

She said he took her to a secluded area near St. Andrew's Church and threatened to kill her.

The woman tried to get away, she said, yelled for help, and tried to get her phone.

He threw the phone away, she said, and he raped her.

The woman told the court that Boalag choked her until she passed out. When she came to, she found a police car and told officers she was raped.

Brace, however, said the sex she had with Boalag was consensual, that she picked up him while she was drinking downtown.

McCarthy reminded the court that the third woman also picked Boalag out of a photo line up.

DNA match

Semen taken from the first three women to testify was a DNA match to Boalag, the court has been told.

Investigators were able to get DNA off a cigarette butt belonging to Boalag, retrieved on Dec. 9, 2012, after he was identified as a suspect.

However, Brace questioned the veracity of the DNA and said the court doesn't know how the DNA samples were handled.

The other three complaints were sex workers in the downtown.

One woman said she was dragged into a wooded area by a man with a knife after she refused to perform oral sex on him .

A knife alleged used by Boalag was entered into evidence in provincial court. The Crown says it does not have to prove there was a weapon, only that the women believed there was one. (Glenn Payette/CBC)

She told the court she could only think of her little girl when the attack was happening, and didn't think the police would believe her.

Like some of the other women, she said she recognized Boalag on the news.

The fifth woman called to the stand refused to testify.

The final woman pointed Boalag out in court and said she remembered his accent.

She said a man attacked her but there was no sex.

Brace also questioned that woman's testimony, saying she lacks credibility and has a criminal record

McCarthy told the court that Boalag resisted when officers arrested him in his car at the Village Mall in St. John's. It took five officers to subdue him, she said.

Boalag, who is originally from Algeria, is facing dozens of sexual assault and weapons-related charges.

Judge Pamela Goulding will make her decision known on August 2.