Polish man found guilty of rape after breaking into woman's home

Saltour Sossiez

By Conor Gallagher and Fiona Ferguson

Sunday October 25 2009



A POLISH national has been convicted of raping and sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend in her County Offaly home after tying up her boyfriend and attacking him with a knife and baton.
The 43-year-old accused had pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to rape and oral rape on November 25, 2007.
The jury on Friday returned guilty verdicts on charges of him entering the house as a trespasser while armed with a bladed weapon and a weapon capable of discharging a noxious liquid gas, false imprisonment of both the complainant and her boyfriend, aggravated sexual assault and raping her with a vibrator on November 25, 2007.

The jury of three women and nine men took six hours and 41 minutes to reach its guilty verdict on the final two counts on day 10 of the trial.
He has pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to the complainant's boyfriend on the same date.

Mr Justice Peter Charleton thanked the jury for their service and excused them from jury duty for 10 years.
He remanded the man in continuing custody and adjourned sentencing to the end of November.

During the trial, the 28-year-old complainant, who is also a Polish national, told Mr Eanna Mulloy SC (with Mr Fergal Foley BL), prosecuting, that the accused had threatened to cut her boyfriend's penis off and murder them both before he forced her to perform oral sex on him and had sex with her.
She said she woke up that night after she was hit on the head and she said she could smell something in the air "like someone had just sprayed something".
She turned on the light and found the accused beating up her boyfriend with a baton.
He then slashed the man with a knife and tied up his arms and legs before he digitally penetrated her and put a vibrator in her vagina while forcing her boyfriend to watch.

She said the accused later went into another bedroom with her where he had sex with her after threatening to kill both her and her boyfriend.
"He said he was going to kill my boyfriend first and make me watch. He was going to cut his penis off and then break my neck," the woman told Mr Mulloy.
"He then said he would maybe kill me first and pack my clothes to make it look like I was leaving my boyfriend and then he would kill him so it would look like he had killed me and then killed himself," she continued.
She said the accused told her it was also his intention to burn down their house after he had killed them.

He told her he had contacted her friends that morning and told them that they were getting back together so people would think she was planning to leave her boyfriend.

"I did not want to scream or shout because I knew my boyfriend could hear me and there would be nothing he could do about it.
"I didn't want to make it any worse for him," the woman told Mr Mulloy.
She said after he had sex with her the accused lay beside her and kissed and hugged her.

The woman told Mr Mulloy that the accused told her that he had been in the couple's home a few times unbeknownst to them after he had taken her house keys from her handbag and made copies of them.
A garda investigating the case told Mr Mulloy that he found charred condoms and a condom box in fire debris less than a mile away from where the rape took place.
- Conor Gallagher and Fiona Ferguson
Sunday Independent


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Jip

Why post random news stories here ? Are you trying to make some sort of point by posting new stories about foreign nationals ?

Saltour Sossiez

Jip wrote: »

Why post random news stories here ? Are you trying to make some sort of point by posting new stories about foreign nationals ?

Is the news section not for posting news? These are both current stories and quite significant.

flogen

Saltour Sossiez wrote: »

Is the news section not for posting news? These are both current stories and quite significant.

This forum is generally for the discussion of the media but it can also be used to discuss news stories that don't have a place anywhere else (for example, political news stories would fit better in the Politics forum.)

That said people are asked to give comment to news articles they reference rather than just copy and paste them to the forum - please add a comment or your opinion to both of your posts or they will be locked.

IRE60

Saltour Sossiez wrote: »

Is the news section not for posting news? These are both current stories and quite significant.

serious, your two 'stories' are tainted, perhaps you should have look at all the previous posts in the forum. You will find they discuss the media - not simply post stories with a raciest agenda.
actually - this is the edit: i just looked at some your other posts and you simply are now showing your self as a juvenile in this post - stick to the x-box etc

flogen

I'm locking this thread as the OP failed to add a comment to the article he references, which is against the forum's charter.