Doctor confirms abrasions on alleged rape victim

A doctor has told a rape trial that she examined the complainant in a sexual assault unit in the local hospital and found red marks and abrasions on the teenager’s neck consistent with having being held down.

Doctor Patricia Devlin also told the Central Criminal Court jury that she found blood in the teenager’s cervix and red and tenderness in her vaginal area, which she said were all consistent with either “violent or exuberant sexual activity”.