Judgement reserved in rape appeal

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgment in an appeal brought by a Waterford businessman against his conviction for the rape of a woman he had met at a hotel through a Cork-based escort agency.

Billy Keogh (aged 47), a married man and father of six, of Wilder, Kilmeaden, was found guilty in February of last year at the Central Criminal Court of raping the 27-year-old Croatian woman, who claimed he told her he was a garda and also threatened to throw her out of a hotel window.