Rape victims 'repulsed' by offer of €20,000 compensation from attacker

A court has heard today that two women who were drugged and raped on a night out in Dublin are repulsed by an offer of €20,000 compensation from their attacker.

Indian computer expert Kapil Garg (aged 35) was convicted in October of the rapes at Whitefriar Place on July 2 last year.

Kapil Garg was described as a predator – a persuasive and charming young man who met the two students outside a nightclub at 3am and lured them back to his home on the pretext he had ecstasy.

He gave the girls a tablet which was not the drug in question and raped them when they fell asleep.

He contested the charges but now accepts the verdicts and has apologised to his victims, one of whom says she will always regret going back to a stranger's home.

The computer expert who has a previous conviction for breaking into a Los Angeles motel room and groping a woman, is to be sentenced tomorrow.

A previous court hearing was told that he has been terrorised in Cloverhill prison and was once held down by two inmates who tattooed a Nazi swastika on his leg.