Woman had "a gut feeling" attack was connected to ex-husband

A jury has heard that a west Dublin woman, who was raped in her home by one of two men who broke into it, believes her former husband was capable of arranging for the men to carry out the attack.

She told Mr Blaise O’Carroll SC, defending, at the Central Criminal Court, that she had taken a barring order out against her former husband after he threatened to kill her if she was in the former marital home in which the attack took place.