Mayo teenager tells court she was assaulted by friend's boyfriend
A Co Mayo teenage girl has claimed she was attacked three years ago by her school friend's former boyfriend in his family home.
The 20-year-old accused has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to five charges of rape, attempted rape, sexual assault, false imprisonment and assault causing her harm on May 3, 2004.
The now 19-year-old complainant, then a 16 year-old school girl, told prosecuting counsel Alexander Owen SC (with Martina Baxter BL), that she had been drinking with a group of young people in a caravan in the accused's garden.
She said she knew of the accused and he had turned up at her house in the middle of the night a "good few weeks previously" and whistled at her bedroom window. While in the caravan, her friend asked them to shake hands and forget about the incident.
She then went to a youth disco with her cousin and a friend but the accused and his girlfriend remained in the caravan and asked them to return there to drink more later.
She said that following the disco the accused rang her a number of times asking her to return to the caravan and wanting to know who she was with.
Her companions had intended to go back to the caravan but changed their minds and she was dropped off in a car at his home at around 1am.
She entered the caravan and realised his girlfriend was not there. She said the accused offered her a can of beer but when she said she had to go home, he took out a knife and said: "You're not going anywhere until we do it."
She said his behaviour became aggressive and strange and that she kept telling him she wanted to go home but he told her they were going to "do it". She said she told him that would be rape and he replied that he didn't care.
She claimed that at one point he put the knife to her throat and hit her in the arm with a knuckle-duster. She said he pulled out a bed, pushed her on to it and tried to remove her clothes. She pushed him away and he said: "You've put up a fair good fight."
He went outside to go to the toilet and she opened the caravan door and saw him cutting his finger with the knife. He told her to get back inside and told her he liked blood and pain. She said he head butted her but she tried to remain calm and get him to realise what he was doing.
She said it became light outside and he wanted to go to the shop so he told her not to run or make a scene or her would stab her. The shop was closed so he took her back to his house and into his bedroom,
She said he told her he was a 'Satan worshipper' and had writing on his ceiling which he said was the "devil's bible".
The teenager will continue to give her evidence before Mr Justice Peter Charleton and a jury of five women and seven men tomorrow.
