JURY RETIRES IN GALWAY RAPE TRIAL

Date Published: 16-Jun-2008

The jury has retired in the trial of a Czech national charged with raping a Galway woman last year.The jury left the courtroom at the Central Criminal Court within the past half hour to begin deliberating on a verdict. Final speeches were made earlier by prosecution counsel, Mary Ellen Ring and defence counsel, Diarmaid McGuinness on day-nine of the trial.The 23-year-old accused has pleaded NOT guilty to raping and sexually assaulting the woman in a County Galway town on July 28, 2007 and denied her allegations in evidence on Friday.