Rape of student may be linked with earlier attack

GARDAÍ have not ruled out the possibility that a man who hit a young student on the head with a brick and then robbed her is the same person who brutally raped a 19-year-old woman as she walked home from a ball.

Senior garda sources said there were a lot of similarities between the two incidents which took place within a short distance of each other, although in the first attack, on Friday, November 21, the student wasn’t sexually assaulted.

She was walking home from a night out when a man came up behind her and struck her on the forehead with a brick. He then demanded money and the student took her purse out of her handbag and threw it on the ground.