Irish nurse jailed for rape in Australia

AN Irish woman has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for raping another woman in a Brisbane hotel in 2009.

Anne-Marie O’Loughlin, a nurse from Offaly who was in the Australian city on a working holiday visa, was found guilty of two counts of digital rape of the woman and one count of deprivation of her liberty last November.

During her trial, it was alleged that O’Loughlin first kissed her victim, who kissed back in a bid to get past her and out of the toilets of the hotel.