Alleged rape victim says she was told ‘shut up’

A homeless woman has told a trial that one man laughed and smirked while his friend raped her in a Dublin hotel.

The two Dublin men, aged 27 and 40 years, have pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to raping the woman at George Frederic Handel Hotel, Fishamble St on March 27, 2012.

On day two of the trial, the alleged victim described how one of the men raped her while the other looked on.