The girls had organised to stay at Saxon's sister Arnica's house, and when they got back there Saxon was bleeding and in pain. "It was from that moment that everything in her. I ran towards her and she actually collapsed in my arms," Brittany said. In court, he would say it was to add to a list of women's names he called "the trophy list".īy the time Saxon found her friend Brittany again, she was in hysterics. Loading.Īfter he had finished, Lazarus asked her to put her name in his phone. She would later testify that she told Lazarus to "stop" - something he vehemently denies. And I was just trying to like, I know it doesn't make sense, but block it out. I just thought, 'Just do what he says and then you can go'," she said. And this was kind of the quickest way I thought I could leave. At that point I was just kind of in autopilot a little bit. Saxon says Lazarus then told her to get on her hands and knees and arch her back. Saxon replied: "What do you expect? I'm a fucking virgin.īut it wasn't over. "He said something like, 'Oh shit, you're tight'." Lazarus tried to penetrate her, but had difficulty. And you know, the few things he said to me before we went outside were just nice, calm, normal things and then all of a sudden, after I tried to leave it was, 'Put your fucking hands on the wall', it wasn't, 'No, please, stay with me'," she said. Saxon has been asked many times since why she acquiesced and it's hard for her to explain - she says she just froze. While Lazarus mostly agrees with this account, he denies swearing and says he did pull Saxon's stockings and underwear down but that she didn't protest. "He said, 'Put your fucking hands on the wall'. So, I pulled them back up and I said, 'No I really have to go now'. "And he was like, 'No, it's fine', and I went to move away and he kind of pulled me back and pulled my stockings and my underwear down. Saxon says she repeatedly told Lazarus that she wanted to go back to her friend. Outside, they got to the end of the lane and kissed. She began texting her friend asking where she was. And instantly after, I realised that I couldn't see her. "He said that he was the part-owner of Soho or something, showed me a card and I was like 'yeah, all right'," she said.īrittany Watts beats herself up that she allowed herself to lose sight of Saxon, even if it was only for minutes. The guy was Luke Lazarus, who had seen Saxon across the dancefloor and "thought she was attractive". "This guy started dancing with me, so I just danced with him," Saxon said. " pleaded with him, 'Please, you are not in the right frame of mind, you are not in the right state, please come home with us', and he ignored us and jumped on the bus and went with the other kids to the Cross."īy all accounts, the Woodstock-themed night at Soho on "went off".īy the time the girls arrived for the second time, the dancefloor was fairly empty, but not enough for two 18-year-old girls to care. "That night, he wasn't himself," Andrew Lazarus would later tell the NSW District Court. A jury and a series of judges have found that Saxon did not consent to sex, but the legal sticking point has always been whether Lazarus knew she was not consenting.Īs a sexual assault complainant, Saxon Mullins' identity has been protected until now, but she's giving up her anonymity to give her first media interview to Four Corners, in the hope that a discussion about this difficult notion of consent might in some way prevent ordeals like hers in the future.Īt his trial, the court heard that on the night of the incident, Luke had been at a 21st celebration and was arguing with his parents, who had pressured him to split up with his girlfriend because she was not Greek Orthodox. One way or the other, it's been deeply traumatic for Saxon and ruinous for Lazarus.Ī widely publicised, five-year criminal legal battle ended with no finality for anyone. The young man involved, Luke Lazarus, has always insisted it was a terrible misunderstanding which he bitterly regrets. She has always called this encounter rape. She was on her hands and knees in the gravel behind a nightclub in Kings Cross. Saxon lost her virginity five years ago this week. "No-one dreams of their first time being in an alleyway with someone whose name they can't even remember. "I had this grandiose, romantic : 'It'll be by candlelight on a bed of roses', with someone who loves me," Saxon remembers. Like every girl, Saxon had notions of what her "first time" might be like. A bright but mostly unsophisticated teenager from the New South Wales Central Coast, she didn't have her first kiss until she was 17. Saxon Mullins was what used to be called a "late bloomer".
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