Gardai in Waterford have appealed for information on the rape of an 18-year-old woman shortly after midday in the city centre.
The woman was attacked at knifepoint as she waited for a friend outside a pharmacist at Barron Strand. She was dragged down nearby Cathedral Street by her attacker, who was described as being in his early 20s of thin build and about 6 2["]. He had tight black hair and was wearing a green T-shirt with a white stripe and blue denim jeans. Gardai are appealing for information from witnesses who may have mistaken the attack for an argument between a couple.
There were no developments yesterday in the investigations into the sexual assault of a Spanish woman in the Knocklyon area of Dublin early on Wednesday and the rape of a 12-year-old girl in Clondalkin on Tuesday. Gardai describe the attacker as in his mid-20s, of scruffy appearance, about 5'8" and 9["] and possibly was wearing a grey jumper.
The attack on the 23-year-old Spanish woman was at 4 a.m. in Templeroan Avenue after she had taken a taxi home from Temple Bar with a man she met in a bar. She got out of the car near the Esso garage on the Knocklyon Road and the man got out nearby and assaulted her at the end of Templeroan Avenue.
He is described as between 25 and 30, slim, with short, tight-cut blond hair and blue eyes. He is between 6'1" and 6'4" and was wearing jeans and a white shirt with a white, zipped top. He was wearing a silver-hooped earring and described himself as an English national.