A CENTRAL Criminal Court jury has convicted a Dublin man of harassing his ex-girlfriend but has disagreed on two counts of rape.
Last week the jury unanimously found the man guilty of assaulting the woman causing her harm and stealing two mobile phones from her on December 18th, 2009, and assaulting her in a car on December 19th, 2009.
The man had pleaded not guilty and had further pleaded not guilty to harassing her between November and December 2009 and to two counts of raping her on December 18th and 19th, 2009.
The jury returned a 10-1 majority guilty verdict on the harassment charge but disagreed on the rape charges, having spent 8½ hours deliberating in the 13-day trial.
Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy thanked the jurors for their care and attention to the case and exempted them from further civic duty for 10 years.
He directed the prosecution to re-enter the two outstanding rape counts on the indictment before Mr Justice Paul Carney.
He remanded the man in custody and ordered the preparation of a victim impact report for the sentence date later this year.
During the trial the woman told Isobel Kennedy SC, prosecuting, that she began a relationship with the accused, whom she believed was separated, in late 2008 but it ended in April 2009.
She said her last contact with him was about three weeks before December 18th.
Later the next morning she told her friend that the accused had beaten and raped her. Her friend told her she had to go to the gardaí. She met her friend at 2pm that day in the city and they went to the Garda station and she later attended at the Rotunda hospital for a medical examination.