74-year-old rape victim: My heart is bleeding with shock

“I can’t stop screaming inside. My heart is bleeding with shock....I feel ripped open stood naked to the core of my being, reduced to nothing. I feel so hollowed out.” Those were the words of a 74-year-old woman raped by a 24-year-old man “who could be my grandson” in September 2014.

Anthony Hussey broke into his victim’s home wearing a balaclava and dressed in dark clothing. When she found him in her bedroom she tried to struggle with him but he pushed her to the floor before raping her both vaginally and anally.

Hussey, of Ardshillane, Sneem, told her afterwards “you enjoyed that didn’t you”.