Woman’s ordeal went on for hours

A YOUNG woman thought she was going to be raped and choked to death during a five-hour ordeal by a man who said he had come close to killing someone previously.

The man had driven her to a remote area in the Dublin Mountains, early on November 19 last, a court heard yesterday.

Another car came on the scene at a crucial moment and interrupted her attacker, but he then proceeded to drive on a short distance before raining blows on her with his fists and with a bat that he had in the car.