One way or the other, it's been deeply traumatic for Saxon and ruinous for Lazarus.ДЄ 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'. Her story serves as a warning about the need to understand what consent is and the consequences of getting it wrong. She was at the centre of one of Australia's most controversial rape trials.

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