Man ‘did not rape woman as she slept’

A Cork man denied raping his friend’s girlfriend in a case where it was alleged he got into a single bed with the couple and began having sexual intercourse with her when she was asleep.

The accused was 19 at the time and the complainant 21 and he pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork to a charge of raping the young woman by placing his penis in her vagina on May 10, 2016.