Lawyer accuses Cork woman of making up rape claims to deny ex-partner access to children

The woman's daughter wept as she told the court about alleged cruelty when she was a child in the house

Mr Justice Michael McGrath and a jury of five women and seven men at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork heard evidence of the two parties disputing access arrangements at the family court. File photo: Dan Linehan

A woman who claimed she was raped and sexually assaulted by her then-partner was accused by the defence of making up the allegations “so that he would be locked up and the key thrown away.” 

Defence senior counsel, Tom Creed, put this allegation to the complainant saying that she made the complaints so that the accused would not get access to the children. The complainant said this was not true.