Rape trial nears conclusion

The concluding stages have been reached in the trial at the Central Criminal Court of a man charged with raping a prostitute in her Dublin flat.

The 35-year-old Lithuanian man pleaded not guilty at the start of his trial to charges of rape and anal rape of the woman on May 27, 2006 but following submissions by defence counsel, Mr Brendan Grehan SC the second charge has been reduced by Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy to attempted anal rape.