Rape accused brother ‘wanted to be my first’

The complainant in a rape trial testified yesterday that her 20-year-old brother told her as she approached her 16th birthday "he wanted to be my first".

Asked by Tom Creed, prosecuting, at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork, what precisely she took that to mean, the witness replied: “That he would be the first person I had intercourse with.”

She described yesterday how she twice complained to her mother that her brother was sexually assaulting her. Recalling the first time she complained, “My mum said, ‘all you want is for this to stop. We will do that and you don’t have to inform the guards’. He was moved out of the house in March 1997.”