A GARDA who attended at the scene of an alleged rape at a Dublin hotel has told the Central Criminal Court that when she encountered the complainant she was naked, covered in blood and “extremely traumatised”.
A 54-year-old English man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has pleaded not guilty to rape, oral rape and sexual assault of the woman in a hotel bathroom on March 20th, 2007. He has also pleaded not guilty to threatening to kill the woman and threatening her that he would kill her sleeping friend.
He has pleaded guilty to assaulting the woman causing her harm on the same occasion.
Garda Gillian Moran told Pauline Walley SC, prosecuting, that when she and her colleague arrived at the hotel, she met a woman wearing a bloodstained “sports shirt” which came down to her knees. She said she followed this woman to the lift area and found a second woman naked inside a duvet.
She said the naked woman was “extremely emotional, shouting, banging her palm on the ground. Extremely traumatised.”
Garda Moran said that when she calmed her down, she said she had been raped in a hotel bathroom. The woman’s face and the duvet were covered in blood.
She said the woman told her she had met the alleged rapist in a pub and he came back to the hotel with them. Garda Moran said an ambulance arrived and she accompanied the woman to hospital.
Garda Michael Quinn said he accompanied Garda Moran to the hotel and described the alleged victim as “completely hysterical”.
Garda Quinn said he had searched the hotel and in a third-floor laundry room, he found a “tired and dishevelled” man with bloodstains on his white T-shirt. The friend of the alleged victim identified him as the man who had been in their company.
The trial continues before Mr Justice George Birmingham and a jury of five men and seven women.