Woman ‘was on verge of tears’

A hotel receptionist has told a trial a woman was on the verge of crying when she came down from a bedroom where she had allegedly been raped.

A 27-year-old Dublin man is alleged to have raped the homeless woman in a room at the George Frederic Handel Hotel, Fishamble St, Dublin on March 27, 2012.

His co-accused, a 40-year-old Dublin man, is alleged to have watched and to have threatened the woman about reporting it to gardaí. Both men have pleaded not guilty to charges of rape.