Trial of four men alleged to have raped teenage girl hears from complainant's friends

It is the prosecution case that the complainant got into a car with the men in the early hours of the morning and was driven to a location where the four accused and a fifth man not before the courts raped her 'one after another'

The four men, who cannot be named for legal reasons, have all pleaded not  guilty at the Central Criminal Court, sitting in Croke Park, to raping the then 17-year-old girl at a location in the midlands on December 27, 2016. Picture: Collins

A friend of a teenage girl alleged to have been raped “one after another” by four men has told a trial she did not believe her friend was in “a bad state” when they separated because otherwise she would not have left her by herself.

The four men, who cannot be named for legal reasons, have all pleaded not  guilty at the Central Criminal Court to raping the then 17-year-old girl at a location in the midlands on December 27, 2016.