Man convicted of rape and threatening to kill in Meath

A Lithuanian national has been convicted of raping and threatenting to kill a 24-year-old Latvian woman.

A Lithuanian national has been convicted of raping and threatening to kill a 24-year-old Latvian woman.

Virginijus Bagdonas (aged 38), with an address at Whitehalls, Oldcastle, Co Meath was not present at the Central Criminal Court to hear the jury's verdicts that it had found him guilty of rape, false imprisonment and threatening to kill her at places in Meath and Cavan on the night of March 11, 2006.