A FORMER prostitute told a jury at the Central Criminal Court she identified the car in which, days earlier, she had been abducted by two men, brought to the Wicklow Mountains and raped by the driver.
The young Dublin mother of two said that days after the alleged rape, gardai brought her to Heuston station and asked her if she saw her attackers' car.
She walked up and down a line of 13-15 cars and identified a Ford Escort Estate as the car driven by the man who raped her, the alleged victim told Ms Maureen Clark SC (with Mr Pat O'Connell), prosecuting.
She also told the jury she had recognised the location on a bog road near the Lemass monument on Powerscourt Mountain where she says she was subjected to several hours of sexual assault by two men.
She recalled she had shown gardai rubbish which she claimed the men had thrown from the car after she was raped. The rubbish included a used condom, a condom packet and cigarette packets.
The woman previously told the court she had given the driver a condom to use when he was about to rape her.
A 36 year old man has pleaded not guilty to falsely imprisoning her on the night of December 29th-30th, 1994. He also denies raping and sexually assaulting her in the Wicklow Mountains later the same night.
In cross examination by Mr Blaise O'Carroll SC (with Mr Garnet Orange), defending, on the sixth day of the trial, the woman agreed she had initially told gardai her attackers' car was white but the one she identified at Heuston station was silver.
She also agreed she had not mentioned her attackers' car had a roof rack but the car she picked out did.
The woman said she had started abusing heroin again about seven weeks before the alleged rape and consequently had to return to soliciting to feed her habit.
She explained to the jury she only provided oral sex and masturbation for her clients and did not have sexual intercourse with them. Before that she had stayed off heroin for 18 months as her boyfriend did not use drugs.
On the evening of the alleged incident, they had argued because he told her he was sick of their life as a result of her heroin abuse and prostitution.
Due to the extent of her addiction at the time, she did not "give a fuck" about his views and only craved heroin to "feel normal", she said.
Later they made up and had sexual intercourse before he drove her to Dublin city centre. She bought condoms in a service station and then took up position at Fitzwilliam Place.
A car approached her with two men in it and she agreed to get in when the driver claimed his brother was getting out around the corner. She gave the driver directions to a carpark she used but he continued towards the mountains. She realised she was in trouble and began screaming and crying.
The trial, before Mr Justice Moriarty and a jury, continues today.