Former St Kilda footballer Andrew Lovett is reported to have raped a young woman while she was asleep, a court has heard.

While giving evidence this afternoon, a female friend, who cannot be named, said the alleged victim told her that "I was asleep and he thumped the s--- out of me".
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According to Fox News, a court heard the two young women had met a group of St Kilda footballers, including Lovett, Jason Gram and Nick Riewoldt, at the Royal Saxon hotel in Richmond around Christmas last year and had drinks before returning to Gram's Port Melbourne apartment.