A YOUNG man denied "coming on" to a bouncer or that he voluntarily went down a dark laneway with him for gay sex. The 23 year old alleged victim also denied he ran off and alerted gardai only after matters got "out of hand".
"It was out of hand from the start", he told defence counsel Mr Michael McMahon SC at the Central Criminal Court yesterday.
He told Mr Justice Moriarty and a jury that the lane was beside a public building in a Co Kildare town and the accused man had lured him down it by claiming he wanted to show him an interesting feature of the building.
The alleged victim agreed with Mr McMahon he had told the District Court: "I went in because I was curious to see what was down the lane. I'd never been down the lane before."
He agreed he had previously drunk in the pub where the accused man worked and he knew his name. But he told gardai he had never met his attacker before and claimed the man told him the laneway was a short cut home.
He also agreed gardai drove him around on a "fool's errand" looking for his alleged attacker.
He said he did not recall talking about sex with the accused man in a pub toilet while he had drink taken.
When he said he had never told the accused man he was gay, Mr McMahon read part of his statement to gardai. In it he said: "I was afraid of my life and in order to please him I told him I was also gay."
"I must have said that if it's written down", the alleged victim replied to counsel. He rejected a suggestion that he and the accused man went down the lane "recognising and, in effect, fancying each other". He disagreed with a suggestion by Mr McMahon that a witness had seen him walking "hand in hand" towards the lane.
The accused man from Co Kildare pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting the alleged victim on February 5th, 1994.
The trial continues.