A 28-year-old man has been remanded in custody for sentence after he pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court today to the rape a woman in Dublin three years ago.
Algerian asylum-seeker, Sid Amed Benflici, with a previous address in Bray, Co Wicklow admitted two charges of rape and oral rape of the woman on April 16th, 2000 on Broadstone Avenue, Phibsboro. He will be sentenced on May 9th.
Benflici is currently serving a six years sentence imposed by Mr Justice Robert Barr on July 31st, 2001 for kidnapping and orally raping a Co Carlow teenage student.
"If you were an Irish man, or resident here, you would have been jailed for 10 years", Mr Justice Barr told him then.
Benflici was convicted by a jury in May 2001 of false imprisonment, oral rape and aggravated sexual assault of a then 20-year-old woman on April 18th, 2000 at Richmond Hill, Rathmines.
Garda Jim Donegan told the court Benflici's asylum application was denied by immigration authorities in January 2000. He had secured work as a waiter in a Blackrock restaurant at the time of the incident by using a false name and forged documentation.
Benflici had also served three months in prison for common assault on a woman in October 2000 after he posed as a hackney driver to pick her up in Dublin city centre.