The Latest: Ex-student calls relationship with girl ‘flirty’

Owen Labrie listens to testimony in Merrimack County Superior Court Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015, in Concord, N.H. Labrie is charged with raping a 15-year-old freshman as part of the "Senior Salute," a practice of sexual conquest at the prestigious St. Paul's School in Concord. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, Pool) Owen Labrie listens to testimony in Merrimack County Superior Court Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015, in Concord, N.H. Labrie is charged with raping a 15-year-old freshman as part of the "Senior Salute," a practice of sexual conquest at the prestigious St. Paul's School in Concord. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, Pool)

By Associated Press August 26, 2015 3 min read

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – The latest on the trial of a former student at an elite prep school accused of raping a freshman as part of a tradition called Senior Salute (all times local):

10:30 a.m.

A former student accused of raping a freshman two days before he graduated from an elite New Hampshire prep school says his relationship with his accuser was “flirty.”

Nineteen-year-old Owen Labrie, of Tunbridge, Vermont, was the first witness as the defense case opened Wednesday.

Labrie testified that he sent the 15-year-old freshman an email inviting her to a Senior Salute because he wanted to ask her out.