POLISH MAN ACQUITTED OF GALWAY RAPE
Date Published: 11-Jul-2008
A Polish man has been acquitted by a jury of raping a Galway woman last year.The jury at the Central Criminal Court found the 43-year-old man NOT guilty of raping the woman and of assault causing her harm as she was walking home from a pub in a Galway town on May 9, 2007. Mr Justice John Edwards had earlier directed the jury to find him NOT guilty of robbing the woman of €120 on the same night.There is one further count of sexual assault on the same occasion still before the jury.They indicated to Mr Justice Edwards that a verdict might be reached by the five women and six men if given further time.Mr Justice Edwards has sent the jury to lunch and it will resume deliberation on the remaining count later.