Man found not guilty of raping cousin at her home in Cork when he was a teenager and she was five

Woman had claimed the boy, aged 15 at the time, sexually assaulted and orally raped her in a shed at the back of her house

Jury was not told this was the second trial of the case and after extensive deliberations, the first jury was unable to reach a verdict on either of the two charges. Picture: Larry Cummins

A jury unanimously decided a teenager aged about 15 was not guilty of raping and sexually assaulting his cousin when she was aged about five years back in 2011.

Ms Justice Siobhán Lankford thanked the jury of six men and six women at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork after they came back on Tuesday afternoon with their unanimous not guilty verdicts in the case against the defendant, who is now aged bout 30.