It is the State’s case that each young woman found themselves in a taxi after a night out socialising in Dublin city centre and that each was raped by the accused.A taxi driver accused of raping two different women in his car has been described by prosecuting counsel as “predatory”, a trial has heard.
Closing the case on behalf of the prosecution, senior counsel Gerardine Small submitted to jurors that there was an “inherent unlikelihood in two young girls within a period of six or seven weeks making similar accusations against the same man”. She suggested the man stopped because he “targeted” the woman, who was not in a position to consent. “She categorically did not consent. The accused knew full well she did not.”
She put it to the jury that the man was a licenced taxi driver and his job was to get each woman safely home. He told the jury they set aside emotion and sympathy and consider the evidence dispassionately and clinically. Mr Staines suggested that a not guilty verdict doesn’t mean his client is innocent or behaved appropriately, but rather that the case was not proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
She said they exchanged phone numbers and they had consensual sex on several occasions after this. The woman said the man “always had the meter on” and she always paid her fare. She said she was really drunk that night and replied ‘yes’, when the man asked her if she wanted to stay out. She said she didn’t know what he meant.She outlined that the man picked her up on two other occasions, one of which he asked again if she wanted to stay out, but she said no.
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