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According to the Crown, he told her: “I’m going to f— you, and you’re going to like it.” And, the Crown said, he then forced her to perform oral sex and have sexual intercourse.

“I felt that I had to just comply because I was really scared,” Gray testified. She said he was angrier than she had ever seen him, and his tone of voice scared her. “I thought that him having sex with me — raping me — would be easier than him beating me up.”

The Crown dismissed the defence’s suggestion that Gray had no reason to fear Ururyar because he had not been violent toward her before.

Gray testified that after the sexual assault, she curled up in the fetal position and cried herself to sleep.

Gray could not recall minute details about the alleged assault in her testimony, including how she went from sitting on the edge of the bed to lying in the middle of it. She acknowledged under cross-examination that it was possible that she had moved herself back on the bed after Ururyar allegedly forced her to perform oral sex.

“My submission is that this shows Ms. Gray was an active participant in the sexual act,” Bristow said.

The Crown said that it is common for a victim to have trouble remembering extrinsic details of a traumatic event, “like the bank teller who sees the end of the gun but cannot remember if it was in the right hand or the left hand.”

Five days after the alleged assault, Ururyar sent this text message to Gray: “I am sorry things went as they did. I shouldn’t have said and done some of the things I did. I was upset and felt wronged by you but that does not excuse my own mistakes.”