Court dismisses alleged rape victim's garda negligence claim

The High Court has dismissed a woman's claim that Garda negligence resulted in her being raped in her own home by a 56-year-old man who had just killed his wife.

However in his ruling today Mr Justice John Hedigan awarded the woman €200,000 in damages against Joseph Kinsella. The woman, the judge found, had quite clearly suffered "a violent and most distressing attack" by Kinsella.