MEMBERS of a jury wept yesterday as they listened to a stricken phone call to police made by a young woman alleging she had been raped.

"A taxi driver … just f---ing tried to have sex with me in the back seat," the crying teen told the operator.

"I don't even know where I am … He parked the taxi and took me in the back seat and just had sex with me.

"I tried to get his registration … He's coming. I have to run."

As the recording was played, two jurors - a man and a woman - began to cry. Even the District Court judge Peter Berman appeared shaken.

It was the first time the woman, now 19, had heard the tape - reliving the rainy, dark morning of Sunday, November 4 last year when she had fled a taxi driven by Md Kowsar Ali.

Ali, a 22-year-old student from Wiley Park, has pleaded not guilty to rape, two counts of indecent assault and of robbing the woman of $100.

His barrister, Linda McSpeddin, put it to the jury that the sex that took place in the back of the Combined taxi was consensual.

But the alleged victim said she did not know Ali, who had groped her a number of times, including on the breast, as she drifted in and out of a drunken stupor on her way home after he picked her up outside the Flinders Hotel in Darlinghurst.

She had been on a girls' night-out and had drunk eight vodka and orange drinks.

The young woman said the last time she passed out in the taxi she woke to find Ali had taken her from the front passenger seat and was undressing her in the back seat before raping her.

The Crown Prosecutor, Sarah Huggett, said Ali's DNA matched sperm found in the woman's vagina.

The trial continues today.