Accuser admits sending text threats prior to alleged rape

A woman who alleges her former boyfriend broke into her home and raped her on two occasions last year has agreed that she had earlier sent him a text message saying she could have him charged with rape.

The 19-year-old Dublin man, who can not be named for legal reasons, has pleaded not guilty to counts of raping the woman and burglary with a knife on two dates in April and May 2008.