Witness says murder accused told her of attack

A neighbour of a 22-year-old Cork man on trial for the rape and murder of beautician Rachel Kiely has claimed the accused told him the dead woman had been “beaten and raped” on the evening her body was found.

Josephine McCoy was giving evidence in the trial of a then 16-year-old local man who denies raping and murdering Ms Kiely at the Regional Park in Ballincollig on October 26, 2000.