Court refuses ‘search warrant’ appeal by Polish rapist

A man who raped a woman as she was drying her hands in a public toilet has lost an appeal against his conviction.

Przemyslaw Jakubowski, 39, was wearing women’s underwear when he grabbed the woman from behind, dragged her into a cubicle and subjected her to a 40-minute ordeal in which he raped her and threatened to kill her.

Jakubowski, a Polish native formerly of Egmont Court, Earls St, Kanturk, Co Cork, had pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to 12 counts including rape, oral rape, anal rape, threats to kill, assault causing harm, sexual assault, and false imprisonment during the attack on the afternoon of March 9, 2010 in a rural town.