A racing driver has denied raping a nurse caring for Michael Schumacher on the Formula 1 legend’s home.
Mawsom, a friend of the German racing driver’s son, is accused of raping the nurse twice in a bedroom on the 57-year-old’s mansion in Gland, near Geneva, on November 23, 2019.
The Australian racing driver, who told the judge his profession is ‘on hold’, denies the allegations and has claimed that the sex was consensual.
The court in Nyon, Switzerland heard how the nurse, in her 30s, was carried to her quarters fully clothed after becoming intoxicated during a celebration at Schumacher’s home.
When the nurse woke up, she says she was naked and allegedly couldn’t remember what had happened the night before.
She then spotted blood on her bedsheets and felt pain in her vaginal and anal areas.
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She broke down in tears as she recounted the alleged attack in court. She said: ‘I had worked for the family for six years and that night I had been working six days non stop. I used to be very drained and I had had nothing to eat.
‘Once I later asked Joey if anything had happened that night, he said “Yes”. I contacted my doctor and I used to be then referred to a different doctor on the university hospital.
‘I didn’t immediately tell the Schumacher family what had happened. I couldn’t remember anything from the night, I needed to ask considered one of the opposite staff at the home.
‘They said I used to be drunk and that Joey had carried me to my room, I woke up naked and after I first contacted Joey to ask him if anything had happened he said “No” but then later said “Yes”.’
Prosecution read out text messages that Mawson had sent the nurse, after the alleged attack, which said: ‘I’m so sorry from the underside of my heart.’
Mawsom has admitted a ‘consensual relationship’ with the lady, and claims to have text messages to back that up.
In his testimony Mawson insisted that the nurse had been ‘flirtatious’ and had instigated kissing and that that they had ‘touched one another’s genitals’.
He added: ‘She was not intoxicated, she was alert and conscious, she was flirting and he or she managed to get her leg on the pool table.
‘You may see from her body language she was being flirtatious. I knocked on her room and he or she invited me in.’
He added: ‘I hadn’t realised how drunk I actually was. It wasn’t until the subsequent morning that I realised how drunk I had been.
‘During the night, I had assumed she was less drunk than I realised the subsequent morning.’
Mawson told the court that the nurse had been ‘flirtatious’ and had instigated kissing and that that they had ‘touched one another’s genitals’.
He added: ‘She was not intoxicated, she was alert and conscious, she was flirting and he or she managed to get her leg on the pool table.
‘You may see from her body language she was being flirtatious. I knocked on her room and he or she invited me in.’
The trial is predicted to conclude at 6pm local time.
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