Teens jailed after rape captured on phone

A friend of two 17-year-old youths used his phone to record them plying a 15-year-old schoolgirl with neat vodka before one of them had sex with her and the other sexually assaulted her.

Thanks to the footage, the two, who are now 19, were yesterday sentenced to three years in prison with the final 18 months suspended at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Galway.

In a victim impact statement read to the court on behalf of the victim, she said she now suffers from low self-esteem, depression and suicidal tendencies and that other students in her school found out about what had happened and had made comments to her about it.