DPP awaits student’s plea over false rape claim

A Brazilian student accused of making a false report to gardaí claiming she had been raped in Dublin is to be tried in the district court if she pleads guilty.

Otherwise the DPP has decided she will have to go on trial before a judge and jury in the circuit court, which has much tougher sentencing powers and could impose a possible five-year jail term.

Regina Thais De Oliveira, aged 20, who had been residing at Cabra Park in Dublin but now living in Blackrock, was charged last month with making a false statement to officers at Mountjoy Garda Station on August 25.