Man accused of raping his sister in Cork told gardaí 'I never had sex with her'

The defendant had told gardaí in an interview: “I suppose our family wasn’t a prude family – there was a lot of pornography floating around."

The defendant pleaded not guilty to all 28 counts on the indictment and is on trial before Ms Justice Deirdre Murphy and a jury of nine men and three women at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork.

A man on trial for raping and sexually assaulting his younger sister said “a certain amount” happened when he was aged around 11 to 13 but he told investigating gardaí: “I swear on my life I never had sex with her.” 

The defendant pleaded not guilty to all 28 counts on the indictment and is on trial before Ms Justice Deirdre Murphy and a jury of nine men and three women at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork. Twenty-two counts are for rape, four are for sexual assault and two counts are for oral or anal rape and mostly related to a period from November 1995 to November 1998 when she was nine to 12 and he was 15 to 18.