A woman who was on holiday in Killarney has claimed at the Central Criminal Court that she was raped in her hotel room by a man who at one stage asked her if he had humiliated her enough.
A north Dublin businessman (39) denies two counts of Section 4 rape of the woman and one count each of raping her and sexually assaulting her in a Killarney hotel on June 6th, 2005.
The now 58-year-old foreign national told Paul Burns SC (with Tom Rice BL), prosecuting, that she had gone on holiday to Killarney with her husband but was "in a bit of a huff" that night because he didn't want to stay at an Irish music session in the hotel bar. She told her husband she was going to bed to read, and as she prepared herself at about 9.45pm with her back to the room door she heard it close and her partner leave.
She told Mr Burns she was concerned her partner had gone out in their hired car and she decided to check the public parking area near the hotel. "I was very worried about him due to his state of mind," she said. The car was still there but her partner wasn't in it. She didn't recall meeting anyone when she returned to her room.
There was a knock on the door and she opened it to find a man she didn't know who said he was "very sorry", that it was the wrong room. A few minutes later another knock came to the door and it was the same man, but this time he hit her on the right side of her face before locking the door.
She asked what he wanted and he replied he wanted sex. "I was very frightened and said I would do what he wanted so long as he didn't hurt me." She claimed he tried various sexual acts and started to get a bit frustrated. He later forced her to have oral sex.
He hit her again a few times saying: "Have I humiliated you enough yet?"
The hearing continues before Mr Justice Paul Carney.