Man accused of rape at a house in County Tipperary.

 


A man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court accused of raping a woman at a house in Co Tipperary.

The man, who can not be identified for legal reasons, has pleaded not guilty to rape at the house and sexual assault in a car on July 5, 2010.

The woman, giving evidence through an interpreter, said she had been returning home from a cleaning job when the accused man spoke to her on the street a number of times and asked her to clean a house.

He took her to the house where she claims he raped her

The woman will resume her evidence this morning before Mr Justice Barry White and a jury.