A man described himself as a "sick pervert" and claimed he would kill himself after raping a woman in Ballymun, Dublin, in 1995, a jury heard in the Central Criminal Court yesterday.
The 35-year-old mother of three said her attacker jumped up when she told him she was married. He said: "What sort of sick pervert am I?" and added that he had not done anything like it before. He claimed he was going over "to jump off the sixth floor", the woman told prosecution counsel, Mr Tom O'Connell (with Mr Shane Murphy).
On April 29th, 1995, she was asked to view an identification parade in Santry Garda station and picked out the defendant. She was "positive" he was the rapist, she told the court.
The 28-year-old accused has pleaded not guilty to the rape, oral rape, attempted anal rape and aggravated sexual assault of the woman on waste ground at Ballymun, Dublin, in the early hours of March 18th, 1995.
The trial continues.