Woman relives horrific sexual assault by man as she slept in taxi

On waking up, the woman told the taxi driver to stop and went with a friend to a Garda station immediately to report the incident

Mark Patterson has pleaded guilty to sexual assault in the taxi which was returning from Derry to the border village of Lifford. Photo: Northwest News Pix

A young woman has told how she woke up on her way home from a hen night with friends to find a man sexually assaulting her in the back of a taxi.

The woman relived her horrific ordeal as her attacker appeared at Letterkenny Circuit Court in Co. Donegal. Mark Patterson, aged 35, has pleaded guilty to sexual assault in the taxi which was returning from Derry to the border village of Lifford in the early hours of January 21, 2018.