A judge and jury at the Central Criminal Court will hear the case against a 44-year-old man accused of falsely imprisoning and raping a woman at her home in Cork city while he was carrying two knives.<\/p>\n
The case was sent forward from Cork District Court by Judge Mary Dorgan, on the application of Sergeant John Kelleher and now it will be a matter for a date to be set by the Central Criminal Court for a trial.<\/p>\n
Detective Garda Patrick Houlihan charged the accused last month with raping the woman at her home in Cork, and he replied: \u201cShe wanted to have sex with me. I did not do anything against her.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He also said: \u201cShe agreed with it, she called me there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Charged with falsely imprisoning the woman and he replied: \u201cIt is not true.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Solicitor Frank Buttimer represented the accused man in Cork District Court.<\/p>\n
The case arose of the investigation of a reported incident at 9am on February 10 2025 at a location in Cork city where it was alleged that a man fled from the scene and was found, with the assistance of a garda helicopter, on waste ground nearby.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was alleged that a man forced his way into a house where he threatened a woman, who was at home alone with a child, and subjected her to a serious assault, before she fled with her child.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was further alleged that the woman suffered slash wounds.<\/p>\n
Identification of parties to the case is legally prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A judge and jury at the Central Criminal Court will hear the case against a 44-year-old man accused…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,79,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-375242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-court","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}