Customer refused to stay with woman before alleged rape

THE jury in the trial of a Polish man accused of raping a woman in Galway as she walked home from her local pub in which they had both been drinking has heard that she had asked another customer to wait for her but he did not.

The customer, an off-duty taxi driver, told the court that the alleged victim had returned from the toilet and said to him “will you wait, will you stay with me?”.

He told her he was not staying and told the Central Criminal Court that he felt that he had let her down by not bringing her home.