THE remains of Irish Christchurch earthquake victim, Eoin McKenna, 41, have finally arrived home, more than a fortnight after a devastating natural disaster caused havoc in his adopted country.

A woman testifying in the sex abuse trial of the mayor of Pitcairn Island said he treated girls on the remote British territory like his “harem” and accused him of twice raping her.

A Pitcairn Island man on trial for sex abuse used to act as though young girls were available for him whenever he chose, a prosecutor said in a makeshift courtroom on the remote rocky outcrop populated by descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.

A woman wept as she described being raped as a young girl by a man who is now mayor of Pitcairn Island, as his sex abuse trial opened on this remote rocky outcrop populated by descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.