Woman mistook accused for someone else, rape trial told

A woman has told a rape trial she had sexual intercourse in a Clare hotel during a weekend wedding party with a man she mistook for another guest with whom she was sharing the room.

She told the jury of five women and seven men at the Central Criminal Court she had been asleep when a man began kissing her. It was only after they finished having sexual intercourse that she realised he was not the man she had gone to sleep with but was another guest at the wedding.