Rape accused ‘was jogging after two 15-year-old girls’

A man accused of raping a woman with Down syndrome was spotted by gardaí jogging behind two 15-year- old girls two days after the alleged rape, a trial has heard.

The 34-year-old man is accused of luring the woman back to his house and raping her after she became separated from her mother on the street.

The man admits there was some sexual contact with the woman but maintains that it was consensual and that he did not know she had a disability.