Alleged victim denies previous relationship with both rape accused and wife

A woman accusing her ex-boyfriend of harassment, assault and rape has denied she had sex with him and his wife for a number of months before the alleged incidents.

The 27-year-old woman denied under cross-examination that she had sex with the man and his wife during the summer of 2009.

The man, who can not be identified for legal reasons, has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to harassing the woman on dates between September and December 2009; to assaulting her, stealing two mobile phones from her and raping her on December 18, 2009.

He further pleaded not guilty to assaulting the woman causing her harm in a car and raping her on December 19, 2009.

The woman agreed with Mr Padraig Dwyer SC, defending, that she had consensual sex with the man in December 2008 but denied she had sex with him and his female friend before this.

She agreed she had visited the man’s wife regularly after April 2009 but denied she had had a sexual relationship with them both.

Mr Dwyer put it to her that she told gardaí she had not had contact with his client since the alleged incident but records show her phone rang the man’s mobile number several times afterwards and that some of the calls had lasted half an hour.

He suggested she had rung the man “in tears” on these occasions to apologise for making a complaint against him.

The woman denied this and said she had rung the man’s phone to get through to his wife because she thought the wife was not using her own number.

The complainant denied when Mr Dwyer put it to her that the only time an assault had taken place between her and his client was when she pushed and slapped him in a row and he had slapped her back.

Counsel further put it to her that if his client had beaten her like she had described she would have had more injuries on her body.

The woman replied that the man had beaten her mostly on the head when Mr Dwyer put it to her that a doctor had noted “multiple love bites” on her, scratch marks on her abdomen, a bruise on her shoulder and a bruise on her back.

The trial continues with the complainant’s cross examination before Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy and a jury of six men and five women.