Alleged rape victim denies kissing accused

A Limerick woman who alleges she was raped as she walked home alone in the early hours of Halloween Night has denied she earlier kissed the accused and then forced herself on him when they met on the road.

Two men who heard the now 31-year-old woman scream that she was being raped related how they saw two people on the ground and held the accused at the scene until gardai arrived after he gave them the wrong name for the woman.