A Dublin prostitute was allegedly kidnapped and raped by a man who hired her services while she was working in Benburb Street last year, the Central Criminal Court has heard.
The woman, who said she had been working as a prostitute to fund her heroin habit, said she was afraid for her life as the accused held her against her will in his north Dublin flat. She told the jury she secretly used his mobile phone to call 999 and a friend to alert them. She called her friend first because she did not want the Gardaí to be involved as she knew "what the consequences would be".
The accused man, a 38-year-old foreign national, has denied raping her three times and falsely imprisoning her at his flat on March 25th-26th, 2001.
She said she had made it clear to the accused before agreeing to accompany him that she was not willing to do anything more than perform oral sex on him.
She denied a suggestion by Mr Hugh Hartnett SC, defending, that she had sex with him on another occasion, around Christmas 1999, after meeting him in a pub near the Rotunda Hospital.
She said she had never met him before and had not even realised he was foreign until after the first alleged rape. She said that despite the fact that he needed an interpreter for the trial, she heard him speak "perfect English" when he approached her.
The trial continues.