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A person feared to have used an ‘aphrodisiac’ to drug two males earlier than sexually assaulting them has instructed a courtroom every little thing he did was consensual.
Luiz Da Silva Neto, 35, denies accusations that he trawled bars to ‘decide up a drunken and susceptible particular person’ or that he spiked anybody.
Detectives concern he might have drugged his targets with wither GHB or GBL earlier than sexually assaulting them in November and December final yr.
Jurors heard how the primary alleged assault happened at a cottage in Center Barton, Oxfordshire.
The primary man had gone there to hold out some adorning work and the pair had photographs of Jagermeister collectively earlier than the alleged sufferer started to really feel drained.
He went to sleep absolutely clothed earlier than waking up bare, jurors at Oxford Crown Court docket heard.
Beneath cross-examination Da Silva Neto mentioned ‘he was consenting’ and ‘awake’ when he carried out oral intercourse on the person.
Prosecutor Matthew Walsh mentioned: ‘If an individual medication one other particular person inflicting them to move out, the one that handed out can't be consenting to what takes place?’
He added: ‘It could be apparent’ to the one that did the drugging that the opposite particular person was not consenting.
Da Silva Neto insisted it's ‘not the reality’ that he spiked the person, who can't be named for authorized causes, including: ‘I've by no means, ever given anybody any medication.’
When leaving the property, the alleged sufferer observed what he described as a syringe on the facet of the kitchen and was satisfied he’d been drugged, jurors beforehand heard.
Mr Walsh has beforehand described the drug as an ‘aphrodisiac’ with ‘euphoric and hallucinogenic results’.
The second alleged sufferer was a married man who was on an evening out with work colleagues at Raffles nightclub, in London’s West Finish.
The person beforehand instructed the listening to he has imprecise reminiscences of feeling ‘unusual’ when he spoke to a doorman.
He remembers consuming a cup of ‘darkish brown liquid’ being held to his lips in some unspecified time in the future earlier than waking up bare in an odd room in Oxfordshire.
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Da Silva Neto mentioned he was ‘excessive’ and on the lookout for medication that night time, however the married man didn't appear intoxicated once they met.
Mr Walsh famous that the defendant had been filming within the bathrooms of native pubs for his personal ‘sexual gratification’.
‘You had been seeking to begin a dialog, to search out someone who may be drunk and somebody you would possibly be capable to make the most of,’ he added.
Da Silva Neto mentioned he ‘disagreed’ with that and that he knew filming within the bathrooms was fallacious nevertheless it occurred as a result of he was excessive.
Flatly denying that he spiked the married man’s drink, he mentioned: ‘I can not say he's mendacity as a result of I have no idea the man. I have no idea if he was being himself that night time.’
Da Silva Neto added: ‘It appears to me that he was a man exterior a nightclub. He was on the lookout for some enjoyable and an evening out.
‘I invited him, not pondering that he would include me. It's not one thing I'd have completed if I used to be not excessive to be trustworthy.’
Da Silva Neto, of Wandsworth, southwest London, is charged with two counts of administering a substance with intent and two counts of inflicting an individual to have interaction in sexual exercise with out consent.
He additionally faces one depend of kidnapping, rape and committing an offence with intent to commit a sexual offence.
The trial continues.
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