Doubts on Theophanous rape case

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'CORRESPONDENCE that could support a woman's claims that Labor MP Theo Theophanous raped her may have been falsified, throwing doubt on the allegations against him.

Two former friends of the woman told a committal hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates Court yesterday that conversations attributed to them in letters and emails from the alleged victim never happened.

The alleged victim told police that on September 10, 1998, Theophanous raped her on the couch in his Parliament House office.

She said that later she spoke to three friends about the alleged assault, but yesterday two of these women said the conversations never happened.'