POLISH MAN DENIES RAPING WOMAN IN GALWAY TOWN
Date Published: 08-Jul-2008
A Polish man has denied raping a Galway woman in a community centre carpark as she walked home from her local pub at his trial at the Central Criminal Court.He told the jury on day-five of his trial that he did not have sex with her because she indicated she didn't want to have intercourse.The 43-year-old man has pleaded NOT guilty to charges of rape, sexual assault and assault causing harm to the woman in a Galway town on May 9, 2007.Earlier, Mr Justice John Edwards directed the jury to find the accused not guilty of robbing the woman of 120 euro on the night in question. The hearing continues before Mr Justice Edwards and a jury of seven men and five women.