The woman who says a 28-year-old Policeman sexually assaulted her after he broke into her home spent the entire day on the stand in Magistrates' Court yesterday.

The woman said she went on a `pirate cruise' to Hawkins Island on July 24 before proceeding to a friend's birthday party.

She said she arrived home around 1.30 a.m. took off her skirt and went to bed dressed in the body suit she wore to the party. "I had been drinking,'' she said, "but I wasn't drunk. I was in a very mellow state of mind. I was awakened by a man in my bed. His head was between my legs. He was kissing and licking my private area. I was lying on my back slightly to one side and the man was lying on the bed face down with his head between my legs. The man pulled my body suit to one side so he was actually touching my skin. I then sat bolt upright in bed and asked him who he was. He just said `come on don't say you don't remember me' and he told me his name. I got out of bed turned on the light and opened the door and told him to get out of here.'' Her story contradicted earlier statements the accused man made to Police. In his signed statement read out in court on Monday the man said he knew the woman whom he had met on previous occasions at Flanagan's Pub and Oasis nightclub.

He said he knew the woman was often losing her keys and that she would get into the apartment through a bathroom window. In the statement he also said the woman had told him to come up and see her anytime.

But the woman steadfastly denied ever meeting the man or talking to him before she alleges he broke into her apartment on July 25.

The man's lawyer Mr. Delroy Duncan said: "Your position is that a man you never knew, seen or spoken to, without an invitation, comes to your apartment not through the front door but by a route you yourself had used, and upon your being woken up by him he tells you his name?'' The woman agreed.

Mr. Duncan also reiterated his criticism of the media coverage of the case.

Citing the relevant section of the criminal code Mr. Duncan asserted that the media had divulged too many facts about his client to the public.

"My client has already been identified as a result of the Press coverage.'' he said.

Crown Counsel Mr. Stephen Harrison disagreed. He pointed out that Mr. Duncan had not presented any evidence to back up his claim.

"I think the court should not be considering anything other than an admonishment to the Press that they should stay within the rules, but it should not be telling them what it can print. The court should not be trying to dictate what the Press can and cannot do. It is a wasted exercise for my friend to be going through these exercises with the court.''