The A-Ligue Star Angel Torres gives his side of the events after being accused of having raped a woman, laughing at her and calling her “ Sick at the head ”

A-Ligue football star Angel Torres told a jury that he had never raped a young woman after bringing her home from a nightclub.

The Mariners striker said that when the woman was in her room and decided that she wanted to go home and not have sex, he just asked him if he had done something bad before her departure.

Speaking Tuesday through a Spanish interpreter, Torres, of Colombian origin, explained to a jury of the Gosford district court how he had played football professionally in Portugal and Malta before moving to Australia in 2023 to play for the navies.

He said he had gone to Sirens Nightclub in Terrigno on the central coast of New South Wales just after midnight on March 24, 2024 with a certain number of sea players, including Nicholas Duarte, Bailey Brandtman and Miguel Di Pizio, and were upstairs when he established a young woman with a young woman, now 22, and called her.

Torres, 24, said that the woman had used Google Translate on her phone to help them communicate before dancing and kissing.

He showed the woman his Instagram account, where he has more than 11,000 subscribers, and told him that he had played for the Mariners.

“She said good things about me,” Torres on the jury told.

“She said that I had a beautiful smile and that I felt good.

The footballer, who pleaded not guilty of aggravated sexual intercourse without consent involving deprivation of freedom, said that he had brought the woman back to his home, but that he denied her.

Crown prosecutor Andrew Lynch said that the woman allegedly alleged that she had embraced in the Torres room when he had taken her belt and wrapped her around his neck. Torres denied that it happened.

Mr. Lynch said that when the woman said that she wanted to leave, he said “What, don’t you want?”.

The woman allegedly alleged that Torres had entered her digitally and did not stop even if she shouted “no, no, no”.

The prosecutor said Torres laughed at the woman when she asked to know where her pants were before catching her and pushing her against the wall for 45 seconds.

Mr. Lynch said Torres told the woman that she was crazy and sick when she had started to cry.

When the woman managed to get out, she sent an SMS at 2:44 am to a friend saying “I need help”.

Torres would have followed the woman and stood on her while she was sitting on the road before putting her hands on her, preventing her from getting up.

The woman started screaming “help, help”, and Torres told her “you are going to ruin my career”.

She said she had said to Torres “Let me go, I won’t say anything”.

The woman sent a text to her friends and they found her hiding in the bush, said the court.

Torres told the jury that he and the woman had been in the room kissing and touching when he entered it by consensually digitally before getting up and asked if she wanted to have sex.

He said that she had told her that she just wanted to go home and when she dressed, he asked her if something had happened.

Torres said that the woman had repeated that she wanted to go home without explanation, then she left.

He denied all the accusations of the woman, saying that he never made fun of her, caught her, called her mad or shouted.

Torres said he had followed the woman outside because he was worried that she was outside at almost 3 am.

“For me, in my country, it is something very dangerous to do,” he said.

Torres told the jury at some point that the woman seated outside and had shouted with the aid.

“I said” What’s going on? ” I don’t do anything to you ”. ”

Torres also pleaded not guilty to another chief of sex without consent, to an intimidation chief intention to cause fear and two chiefs of assault.

The trial before judge Tanya Bright continues.