Mother tells court of ‘nightmare call’

THE mother of a law student who said she was raped by a Republic of Ireland Under-21 international footballer told a court yesterday it was “like a mother’s worst nightmare” when her daughter phoned her in the middle of the night and told her to call the police.

The 22-year-old claims she was “almost passed out” and had “absolutely no energy to resist” when goalkeeper Graham Stack allegedly attacked her and his friend Allan Smillie allegedly sexually assaulted her in the player’s flat after meeting them in a West End club on September 1 last year.

“She said: ‘Mum, mum, call the police’,” her mother told the court.