Polish man goes on trial over rape of former girlfriend

A Polish national has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with raping his former girlfriend after tying up her boyfriend with rope and duct tape in their Offaly home.

The man has pleaded not guilty to entering the house as a trespasser while armed with a bladed weapon and a weapon capable of discharging a noxious liquid gas, false imprisonment of both the complainant and her boyfriend, and various sexual offences against the woman including aggravated sexual assault, rape and oral rape on November 25, 2007.