Kerry man guilty of intimidating prostitute

A Kerry man has been convicted of intimidating a sex worker into withdrawing rape allegations against him.

The 40-year-old man sent the woman texts messages and emails calling her a whore, and threatening to tell her family and neighbours that she was a prostitute.

A jury of six men and six women acquitted him of raping and sexually assaulting the woman in a hotel room in Dublin City on March 28, 2010. The jury found him guilty of two counts of threatening or putting in fear a witness in a garda investigation on dates between April 29 and May 28, 2010.