Alleged rape victim denies setting man alight

The alleged victim of an attempted rape has denied she doused a hitchhiker with petrol and tried to set him alight because he failed to live up to the image of "the amorous, randy Irishman".

The woman dismissed as "extraordinarily bizarre" the suggestion by defense counsel Mr Blaise O'Carroll SC, in cross-examination, that she had tried to set the man alight because he was "sexually inadequate".