Special Report: ’He started to beat me hard. He told me I will break your face’

Anna Bubula came to Ireland to start a new life but claims she was raped and sexually assaulted while being held against her will. A Garda investigation has been launched into a failure to properly investigate the matter, writes Michael Clifford. Here is Anna's story.

The episode with the knife chilled Anna Bubula, but worse was to come. She was alone in the apartment with him, this man who had brought her to a distant and strange town under false pretences. The weekend had started out suspicious but steadily grew into something approaching terror. Then, at the height of it, he produced a knife.

“He tells me he wants to kill me and he took a knife from the kitchen and plays with it. He offers me the knife and asks me to kill him. The episode with the knife passed. I do not know what happened to the knife.”