Woman intimidated rape victim ahead of trial

A rape victim due to give evidence in a criminal trial was put in fear by a woman who made intimidating comments to her in May 2011, before the trial began.

Garda Alison O’Flynn said the unnamed woman was due to testify in a rape trial when she was confronted by Angelique Arundel, formerly of Shannon Lawn, Mayfield, Cork, but now living in Tipperary.

Arundel, 27, approached the woman in Cork City centre in the middle of the day, and called the woman “a fucking prostitute, a fucking alcoholic, and a whore”.