A WOMAN was raped soon after police confiscated her keys and left her stranded in a New Zealand pub's car park.

The mother-of-two was sober when she left Embankment Tavern in the early hours of June 23, 2011, she told Christchurch District Court yesterday.

During the opening of the trial of the accused, Joshua Allan Schooner, the emotional woman detailed the events of the night, the New Zealand Heraldreports.

She had visited the pub to play the poker machines after dropping her children off at their Aunt's house. She stayed until 4am, closing time, and was on her way to her car when a stranger handed her a bottle of bourbon and coke.

She was then stopped by two constables, on post-earthquake duties, in the car park. They proceeded to take her license for breaching the driving hours on her restricted conditions.

"They assumed I was drunk," she said.

"I was angry because they didn't breath test me. If they hadn't taken my keys it would have been OK. The police didn't ask how I'd get home - didn't really care."

Proceeding to smash her car window, she asked a passer-by, Mr Schooner, for his help, and he offered her a fork from his home as a tool to hot-wire her vehicle.

At home, he became aggressive and dragged her upstairs, tearing her clothes off before raping her, the court heard.

"I wanted to fight back but I couldn't - I was scared," she said, giving evidence from behind a screen.

"I said 'stop' and he wouldn't stop."

"It's all my fault for going there."

According to the woman, Mr Schooner spoke of love during the rape, but told her to "f**k off" afterwards.

Discovering the doors were locked, she escaped through an open window and ran to her brother's house.

Mr Schooner denies the allegations of rape, sexual violation and abduction by unlawfully detaining her at his house, but medical tests found the woman suffered injuries and bruising, and semen with Schooner's DNA was discovered.

The defence claims the sex was consensual and she had made the story up because she "felt used".

"You wanted to get back at him because he made you feel cheap," defence counsel Michael Knowles claimed.

The trial continues.

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