Four accused in Midlands gang rape trial told self-serving lies, court told

The closing speech for the prosecution told the jury that the complainant was legally a child at the time that she was “gang-raped” by “five boys”

Evidence ended on Thursday morning and closing speeches have begun and will continue on Friday before Justice Tara Burns and a jury. File photo

Each of the four men on trial for taking part in the “gang rape” of a teenager girl lied and gave self-serving accounts to gardaí, a prosecutor has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court.

In the early hours of the morning of December 27, 2016, in a Midlands town, the then-17-year-old girl got into a car with five men, a decision she has told the jury she now believes was “very stupid”.