Woman jailed for threatening to kill rape victim

A rape victim who was due to give evidence in a criminal trial was threatened that, if the rapist was convicted, she would be dead within a week.

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

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