Sentencing in false rape case set for January

A woman who gave a detailed account of a rape in what later transpired to be consensual sex, after becoming separated from friends on the night of the 2014 All-Ireland Football final, will be sentenced in January, the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee was told.

A foreign national had been close to arrest on foot of her complaint at 4am in Killarney Garda Station of being pursued by a man with a green hoodie, it emerged yesterday, and gardaí had spent up to four weeks investigating the detailed complaint. The suspect had his home searched and clothes confiscated.

Jacinta O’Connor, now aged 27, of of Steelroe, Killorglin, Co Kerry, claimed the man who pursued her was “Pakastani-looking”.