Rape trial jury hears that woman 'was left unaccompanied'

The jury in the trial of a Polish man accused of raping a woman in Galway as she walked home from her local pub in which they had both been drinking has heard that she asked had another customer to wait for her but he did not.

The customer was an off duty taxi driver and told the court that the alleged victim had returned from a trip to the toilet and said to him “will you wait, will you stay with me?”