The 47 year old pleaded guilty to the attack on the woman, who was 42 at the time, at a flat that she was renting with another man on November 17th, 2014.
The Central Criminal Court heard evidence from Detective Sergeant John Keane who said the woman arrived home to her flat to find her flatmate drinking in the sitting room with the accused.
She was sitting on her bed in her bedroom when the accused broke through her door…He pushed her onto her bed and repeatedly beat her on the head and around the neck area.
During the attack, the woman dislocated her wrist…Following the sexual assault the man told her: “If I want to have sex with you, I will”.
The woman, who arrived in Ireland several years ago from her native European country, later told a friend about the attack…Gardaí were informed and the accused was arrested in Limerick a short time later.
In her victim impact statement the court heard the victim had nightmares following the assault and had become “extremely intimidated of men”.
She had to take prescription medicines as her mental health deteriorated…and has since returned to her native country in an effort to rebuild her life.
Counsel for the defence told the court the accused was disgusted with what he had done, apologised for his behaviour and understood he had to be severely punished.
He pleaded guilty to sexual assault, anal rape, oral rape and false imprisonment of the woman on November 17th, 2014.
Mr Justice McCarthy said he took the man's guilty plea and the fact that he was a foreign national with very poor English into account when sentencing…he backdated his sentence of seven years imprisonment to November 19, 2014, when the man was taken into custody.
