Victim: Rape in van will haunt me

The woman who was raped in a remote part of Cork in the back of a van feels the crime will always haunt her and that she will be marked by it forever.

She says she felt like screaming during last November’s trial when the defence suggested it was consensual sex, even though she was bruised on her arms, legs and torso and her clothes were extensively ripped and torn.

A victim impact statement from the 34-year-old woman was read to Mr Justice Paul Carney at the sentencing hearing for two young men convicted by a jury for their parts in the sex attack.