A Donegal man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of raping his ex-girlfriend in the county almost six years ago.
The man has pleaded not guilty to raping the now 26-year-old woman on July 1st, 2004.
Alex Owens (with Paul Greene), prosecuting, said it was the State’s case that the accused and the complainant had been going out with each other for four years prior to the alleged incident, and had a child together. They had been living together, but the previous Sunday she had asked him to leave after a falling out. Four days later she came downstairs some time after midnight and found the accused there.
Mr Owens said it would be the State’s case that the accused had drink taken. “Against her objections he had sex with her, without her consent, and he knew it was without her consent.”