Under questioning before a jury from Mr de Belin's defence barrister David Campbell SC,the officer admitted to scrolling through messages from the player's seized Nokia mobile in December 2019. He denied that he then spoke to Mr de Belin's accuser about the content of those messages.
Mr Campbell put to Senior Detective Adams:"You were looking through that material ... in the hope that there may be in that material something that could undermine the defence of Mr de Belin,correct?"
The Senior Detective replied:"It's incorrect."
In a previous court exchange in February,read out to the jury in the NSW District Court in Wollongong on Wednesday,the officer admitted to lying about knowing messages between Mr de Belin and a contact called"Craig lawyer"- revealed to be lawyer Craig Osborne - were to do with the rape case.
"You gave false evidence to his honour under oath,didn't you?"asked an unnamed lawyer during that previous hearing. The Senior Detective answered:"Yes."
After reading parts of that exchange,Mr Campbell put to the officer on Wednesday that during that hearing,"you wilfully lied to the court". The Senior Detective replied:"Yes."
On Wednesday Senior Detective Adams also denied burying accounts that did not fit the accuser's story. However,he said he failed to disclose inconsistencies in the woman's narrative before the trial against Mr de Belin and Shellharbour Sharks footballer Callan Sinclair began.