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13/06/2008
Czech National Denies Galway "Kissing" Rape
A Czech national has denied he raped a Galway woman who had run up to him on the street and kissed him while he walked home.
In evidence at the Central Criminal Court the accused denied he raped the woman pleading not guilty to raping and sexually assaulting her on the alleged victims parked car in a Co Galway town.
The man told defence counsel, Mr Diarmaid McGuinness, he and the woman had kissed earlier but she had declined his invitation to "come home" with him.
She told him she had to get up early for work the following day but suggested after they had kissed some more that he might wait 30 minutes for her.
He had told her he was leaving for his homeland the next day.
He said he then left the area outside the pub and started walking in the direction of his flat with his flatmate and the flatmate's girlfriend but stopped when he heard her call out to him.
The accused told Mr McGuinness the woman then "came up fast to me" and put her arms around him.
He also put his arm around her waist and they kissed again. His friends told him they would leave their hall-door open for him and they went home.
He said she then moved him in the direction - behind a bank - to where her car was and they had consensual sex until she said: "Wait, I can't", and started crying.
He said he stopped then but when he could not get her to explain why she was crying he went home.
The trial continues before Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy and a jury of eight men and four women.
(DW)
In evidence at the Central Criminal Court the accused denied he raped the woman pleading not guilty to raping and sexually assaulting her on the alleged victims parked car in a Co Galway town.
The man told defence counsel, Mr Diarmaid McGuinness, he and the woman had kissed earlier but she had declined his invitation to "come home" with him.
She told him she had to get up early for work the following day but suggested after they had kissed some more that he might wait 30 minutes for her.
He had told her he was leaving for his homeland the next day.
He said he then left the area outside the pub and started walking in the direction of his flat with his flatmate and the flatmate's girlfriend but stopped when he heard her call out to him.
The accused told Mr McGuinness the woman then "came up fast to me" and put her arms around him.
He also put his arm around her waist and they kissed again. His friends told him they would leave their hall-door open for him and they went home.
He said she then moved him in the direction - behind a bank - to where her car was and they had consensual sex until she said: "Wait, I can't", and started crying.
He said he stopped then but when he could not get her to explain why she was crying he went home.
The trial continues before Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy and a jury of eight men and four women.
(DW)
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