Case No. 2529Rape, oral rape, sexual assault · Co. Dublin · 31 Aug 2019
Three men on trial for rape and sexual assault of woman met at Dublin nightclub
Three men aged 34 to 42 are on trial at the Central Criminal Court for seven counts of rape, oral rape and sexual assault of a woman they met at a Dublin nightclub on 31 August 2019. The complainant's housemate testified she had no concerns for her friend's safety when she left the club, and the complainant said she has no 'real memory' of meeting the three accused.
- Reportednot reported
- Arrestednot reported
- Chargednot reported
- In court14 Jan
7 reports - Verdict
- Sentenced
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Key facts
consolidated from all reports105 statements extracted from the articles
- whatThe woman's friend left the club while the woman stayed talking to the three men. (irishmirror.ie)
- whatThe woman recalled getting into what she thought was a seven-seater taxi with four men. (irishmirror.ie)
- whatThe woman recalled someone having sex with her in the back of the car. (irishmirror.ie, irishtimes.com)
- whatThe woman woke up in a house the next morning beside a man she did not know. (irishmirror.ie, irishtimes.com)
- whatThe woman was treated in a Sexual Assault Treatment Unit within 11 hours of the alleged assaults. (irishmirror.ie, irishtimes.com)
- whatThe 39-year-old and 42-year-old men said they had sex with the woman, while the 34-year-old said his only interaction was when she performed oral sex on him. (irishmirror.ie)
- whatThe woman recalled getting into what she thought was a seven seater taxi with a group of what she thought was four men (irishtimes.com)
- whatThe woman recalled someone she thought was the taxi driver getting into the car beside her and unzipping his trousers (irishtimes.com)
- whatThe complainant told the court she believed she was drugged (irishmirror.ie, irishtimes.com)
- whatThe three men are aged between 34 and 42 with addresses in Dublin and Wicklow (irishmirror.ie)
- whatThe offences allegedly occurred at an unknown location in a car and in a Dublin house (irishmirror.ie)
- whatShe was dancing and having a good time at the nightclub (irishmirror.ie)
- whatShe said things started to get faded and hazy after her housemate left (irishmirror.ie)
- whatShe could not remember how long she was at the nightclub after her friend left (irishmirror.ie)
- whatShe could not recall if she took any of the white powder (irishmirror.ie)
- whatShe did not remember leaving the nightclub (irishmirror.ie)
- whatHer first recollection was sitting in the back of a vehicle she thought was a taxi with a man and three others (irishmirror.ie)
- whatShe remembered a male being on top of her in the vehicle (irishmirror.ie)
- whatShe was raped in the vehicle (irishmirror.ie)
- whatShe was raped a second time in the car but did not know if it was the same person (irishmirror.ie)
- whatShe does not remember entering the house or how she got there (irishmirror.ie)
- whatHer next memory was lying horizontally at the end of a bed with two others in the room, one on top of her (irishmirror.ie)
- whatShe passed out and woke the next morning at the top of the bed with a man asleep beside her (irishmirror.ie)
- whatShe grabbed a black jacket hanging from the stairs as she could not find her own (irishmirror.ie)
- whatShe walked to a nearby road, ordered a taxi, and sent her housemate a pin drop of her location (irishmirror.ie)
- whatThe woman's first recollection after the nightclub was sitting in the back of a vehicle she thought was a taxi with a man and three others. (irishtimes.com)
- whatThe woman said she was raped a second time in the car. (irishtimes.com)
- whatThe woman's next memory after the car was lying at the end of a bed with two men in the room, one on top of her. (irishtimes.com)
- whatThe woman walked to a nearby road, ordered a taxi, and sent her housemate a pin drop of her location. (irishtimes.com)
- whatThree men pleaded not guilty to seven counts of rape, oral rape and sexual assault (irishmirror.ie, irishtimes.com)
- whatThe woman said she believed she had been drugged at the nightclub (irishmirror.ie)
- whatThe woman gave evidence of being raped twice in a vehicle she believed to be a taxi (irishmirror.ie)
- whatThe woman said she woke up panicking in bed with a man sleeping beside her (irishmirror.ie)
- whatCCTV footage from inside the club and of the car's journey to the first man's home was shown to the woman (irishmirror.ie)
- whatToxicology analysis showed cocaine in the woman's system (irishmirror.ie)
- whatA SATU report recorded bruising on the woman's legs and marks on her arms (irishmirror.ie)
- whatThe woman said there was no consent for any sexual activity with the accused men (irishmirror.ie)
- whatThe complainant told her housemate the next morning that she thought she had been raped. (irishmirror.ie)
- whatThe complainant was wearing a jacket that was not hers when she arrived home. (irishmirror.ie)
- whatThe complainant said she felt paralysed and unable to speak while in the car. (irishmirror.ie)
- whatThe men offered the woman a white powder which she sniffed at the club. (irishmirror.ie)
- whatThe complainant said she wanted to fight back but could not feel her body move. (irishmirror.ie)
- whatThe complainant said she has no real memory of meeting the three accused men at the nightclub or going to a vehicle afterwards with them. (irishmirror.ie)
- whatCCTV from the club appears to show the complainant talking to others and a different man may possibly have handed her a drink. (irishmirror.ie)
- whatThe third man's account is that he suggested going to his home but his mother was asleep downstairs. (irishmirror.ie)
- whatA taxi driver collected the woman around 9.20am on 31 August 2019 and told gardai she appeared normal, did not look upset or seem drunk. (irishmirror.ie)
- whatThe woman told the garda she met and had a drink with approximately six men at the nightclub. (irishmirror.ie)
- whatThe woman met the three men at a nightclub (irishtimes.com)
- whatThe housemate and the complainant went for drinks on the evening of 30 August before going to a nightclub (irishtimes.com)
- whatThe complainant said she was taken to a house where she was raped again (irishtimes.com)
- whatThe complainant said she tried to kick one man away in the bedroom (irishtimes.com)
- whatThe complainant agreed to ring the Rape Crisis Centre and was taken to the Garda station and sexual assault treatment unit (irishtimes.com)
- whatThe complainant said she has no memory of any conversation in the vehicle from the early stages of the journey (irishtimes.com)
- whatThe complainant accepted that CCTV from the club appears to show her talking to others and that a different man may have handed her a drink (irishtimes.com)
- whatThe first man's account is that the woman and he kissed and then he performed oral sex on her (irishtimes.com)
- whatThe third man says he moved towards the wheel arch while the other two men and the woman were engaged in sexual activity (irishtimes.com)
- whereThe woman and her friend were at a nightclub in Dublin city centre when they met the three men. (irishmirror.ie)
- whereThe woman and her friend were in a nightclub in Dublin city centre where they got talking to the three accused (irishtimes.com)
- whereThe offences allegedly occurred in a car and in a Dublin house (irishmirror.ie)
- whereThe woman met the men at a nightclub on the evening of 30 August 2019. (irishmirror.ie)
- whereThe offences allegedly took place in a car and in a Dublin house (irishtimes.com)
- whenThe alleged offences occurred on 31 August 2019. (irishmirror.ie, irishtimes.com)
- whenThe woman and her housemate went to a local pub around 7pm on 30 August 2019 (irishmirror.ie)
- whenThey left the friend's house around 12.30am and went to a pub then a nightclub (irishmirror.ie)
- whenThey arrived at the nightclub around 1.30am or 2am (irishmirror.ie)
- whenThe woman and her housemate went to a local pub at about 7pm on 30 August 2019. (irishtimes.com)
- whenThey arrived at the nightclub at about 1.30am or 2am. (irishtimes.com)
- whenThe incident occurred on 31 August 2019 (irishmirror.ie)
- whenThe alleged offences took place on 31 August 2019. (irishmirror.ie)
- investigationCCTV from the nightclub showed the woman getting into a car, not a taxi, with three men. (irishmirror.ie)
- investigationThe car was registered to the 42-year-old man. (irishmirror.ie)
- investigationThe accused men were identified and their homes were searched in December 2019. (irishmirror.ie, irishtimes.com)
- investigationGardaí found a WhatsApp conversation between the 39-year-old and 34-year-old men on their seized phones. (irishmirror.ie)
- investigationThe three men were interviewed by Gardaí by appointment in September 2020. (irishmirror.ie)
- investigationDNA from saliva inside the woman's underwear was matched to the 34-year-old and the 39-year-old. (irishmirror.ie)
- investigationCCTV from the nightclub showed the woman getting into a car rather than a taxi with three men (irishtimes.com)
- investigationThe car shown on CCTV was registered to the 42-year-old accused (irishtimes.com)
- investigationThe three men were interviewed by gardaí by appointment in September 2020 and each said the interactions were consensual (irishtimes.com)
- investigationThe housemate accompanied the complainant to the garda station and to the sexual assault treatment unit. (irishmirror.ie)
- investigationThe garda and a colleague took the woman in a garda car to see if she could recognise the house, but she could not pinpoint it. (irishmirror.ie)
- chargeThe men pleaded not guilty to seven counts of rape, oral rape and sexual assault. (irishmirror.ie)
- chargeThree men aged 34 to 42 with addresses in Dublin and Wicklow pleaded not guilty to seven counts of rape, oral rape and sexual assault (irishtimes.com)
- chargeThe 39-year-old denies one count of raping the woman at his home, one count of oral rape and one count of sexually assaulting her in a car (irishtimes.com)
- chargeThe 42-year-old with an address in Wicklow denies one count of raping the woman in the car and one count of raping her in the house (irishtimes.com)
- chargeThe 34-year-old with an address in Dublin denies orally raping the woman in the house and sexually assaulting her in the car (irishtimes.com)
- chargeThe first man, aged 39 with a Dublin address, pleaded not guilty to one count of rape in his home and one count of oral rape and one count of sexual assault in a car. (irishtimes.com)
- chargeThe second man, aged 42 with a Wicklow address, pleaded not guilty to one count of rape in the car and one count of rape in the house. (irishtimes.com)
- chargeThe third man, aged 34 with a Dublin address, pleaded not guilty to oral rape in the house and sexual assault in the car. (irishtimes.com)
- chargeThe three men pleaded not guilty to a total of seven counts of rape, oral rape and sexual assault. (irishmirror.ie)
- chargeThe first man, aged 39, pleaded not guilty to one count of raping the woman in his home and one count of oral rape and one count of sexually assaulting her in a car. (irishmirror.ie)
- chargeThe second man, aged 42, pleaded not guilty to one count of raping the woman in the car and one count of raping her in the house. (irishmirror.ie)
- chargeThe third man, aged 34, pleaded not guilty to orally raping the woman in the house and sexually assaulting her in the car. (irishmirror.ie)
- courtThree men went on trial in the Central Criminal Court. (irishmirror.ie)
- courtThe trial continues before Mr Justice Paul Burns and the jury. (irishmirror.ie)
- courtKarl Finnegan SC is prosecuting (irishtimes.com)
- courtThe trial is before Mr Justice Paul Burns and the jury (irishtimes.com)
- courtThe trial is before Mr Justice Paul Burns and a jury at the Central Criminal Court. (irishtimes.com)
- courtThe trial is before Mr Justice Paul Burns and a jury (irishmirror.ie, irishtimes.com)
- courtThe trial is before Mr Justice Paul Burns and a jury at the Criminal Courts of Justice, Dublin. (irishmirror.ie)
- otherThe 39-year-old and 42-year-old both said they had sex with the woman, while the 34-year-old said his only interaction was when she performed oral sex on him (irishtimes.com)
- otherThe 39-year-old told gardaí he kissed the woman goodbye at the front door the next morning before she got into a taxi (irishtimes.com)
- otherThe first accused man is aged 39 with an address in Dublin (irishmirror.ie)
- otherThe second accused man is aged 42 with an address in Wicklow (irishmirror.ie)
- otherThe third accused man is aged 34 with an address in Dublin (irishmirror.ie)
- otherThe men cannot be named for legal reasons (irishtimes.com)
The reporting
newest first- 17 Jan2025Friend of woman allegedly raped had no concerns leaving her at nightclub, trial hears
Trial testimony from the complainant's housemate and cross-examination of the complainant by defence counsel for the third accused.
victim, femaleaccused, 39, maleaccused, 42, maleaccused, 34, male - 17 Jan2025Housemate of woman allegedly raped by men had no concerns when leaving nightclub
Trial day coverage: housemate testimony, complainant cross-examination, garda witness and taxi driver evidence. The three men deny all charges and say any sexual contact was consensual.
victim, femaleaccused, 39, maleaccused, 42, maleaccused, 34, male - 16 Jan2025Woman denies consensual sexual contact with men accused of rape in Dublin
Details of cross-examination of the complainant by defence counsel for the first (aged 39) and second (aged 42) accused men, including discussion of CCTV footage, toxicology showing cocaine, SATU bruising report, and the defence accounts of consensual sex in the car and at the first man's Dublin home.
victim, femaleaccused, 39, maleaccused, 42, maleaccused, 34, male - 15 Jan2025Complainant in trial of three men for rape tells court she believes she was drugged
Complainant's full testimony describing the sequence of events from the nightclub through the alleged drugging, two rapes in a car, a rape in a house, and her subsequent actions including contacting the rape crisis centre and making a complaint at her local Garda station.
victim, femaleaccused, 39, maleaccused, 42, maleaccused, 34, male - 15 Jan2025Woman allegedly raped by three men in Dublin nightclub says she was drugged
Complainant's testimony describing the sequence of events: going to a nightclub with her housemate, believing she was drugged, being raped in a car and at a house, waking the next morning, and reporting to gardai and SATU the same day.
victim, femaleaccused, 39, maleaccused, 42, maleaccused, 34, male - 14 Jan2025Three men go on trial accused of raping and sexually assaulting woman they met in Dublin nightclub
Provides details of the prosecution's opening address including the complainant's fragmented recollection, CCTV showing the woman getting into a car registered to the 42-year-old, a WhatsApp conversation in which the 39-year-old asked the 34-year-old to send video clips, DNA from the woman's underwear matched to the 34- and 39-year-old, and the prosecution's argument that the woman was highly intoxicated and the issue is consent.
victim, femaleaccused, 39, maleaccused, 42, maleaccused, 34, male - 14 Jan2025Trial begins for three men accused of raping woman they met in Dublin nightclub
Details from the first day of trial: prosecution opening address, CCTV evidence showing the woman entering a car registered to the 42-year-old, WhatsApp video clips between two defendants, DNA evidence from the woman's underwear, and the defendants' statements that the encounters were consensual.
victim, femaleaccused, 39, maleaccused, 42, maleaccused, 34, male