A court has heard a woman describe how she was allegedly raped by an off-duty taxi driver who expected sex from women he took to outlying communities.

Conway 'Hughie' Seymour is on trial in the Kununurra District Court accused of pulling over and raping a 50-year-old woman while he drove her home to an Aboriginal community near Kununurra on May 2, 2020.

Mr Seymour has pleaded not guilty to the charge of sexual penetration without consent arguing he had consensual sex with the woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons.

The first day of the trial heard from the alleged victim who for hours faced repeated questions about her previous sexual encounters with the accused, which she said occurred almost a decade ago.

Alleged victim asked for a lift prior to the incident

On the night of the incident, the court heard the woman was drinking with her niece and others at a house in Kununurra.

The court heard that, in a statement made to police, she described Mr Seymour driving past the house 'probably for a bit of a perv'.

She told the court he came to the house in his taxi and she asked him for a lift back to the community where she lived.

He later returned to the house driving his own car, a white 4WD, and the pair set off on their journey.

The woman said during the drive Mr Seymour pulled over in a gravel pit, got out of the car and came around to the passenger door.

Prosecution counsel Michael Perrella: What happened when he came over to your side?

Woman: He stripped me. He took my clothes off. He raped me.

The woman said Mr Seymour's sexual advances were unwanted.

"I said: 'What are you doing?' He said: 'I know what you're here for,'" the woman said in her evidence.

She told the court she felt 'angry' and 'upset' in the aftermath of the alleged rape.

"I just wanted to hang myself," she said.

Focus on previous sexual encounters

In his cross-examination, defence counsel David Bodeker asked at length about the woman's previous two sexual encounters with Mr Seymour, which she said occurred in 2011 and 2013.

She repeatedly denied they had sex on more than those two occasions.

The woman said Mr Seymour was known to expect sex in exchange for a lift.

Mr Bodeker put it to the woman that she had shown affection to Mr Seymour by stroking his arm prior to the incident, something she denied.

Mr Bodeker: When you asked Hughie for a lift you stroked his arm in a sex sign.

Woman: No

Mr Bodeker: You agreed to have sex and took off your shorts.

Woman: No

Mr Bodeker: And later you felt bad and described it as rape.

Woman: No.

The Department of Transport suspended Mr Seymour's licence to drive a taxi after its own investigation last year.