He held a knife to her and raped her on numerous occasions. She woke to find him leaning over her in her bed at 7am. He had a knife in his right hand. He covered her mouth with his left hand. He told her to shut up or he would kill her and her mum and her dad. He had the knife in the air moving it back and forth. The blade never touched her. He was on top of her.

She knew something bad was going to happen. She decided to trick him to leave her alone — she agreed to have sex the following day. But he kept slapping her in the face, saying, ‘No, you are going to do it now.’ She agreed to give him oral sex. He was still holding the knife,” Det Garda O’Regan testified.

In the period that followed, the defendant performed oral sex on the injured party and he also penetrated her a number of times from different positions, recording some of what occurred on his mobile phone and repeatedly making the death threats.

He used Google Translate on his phone at various times and told her she could not tell anyone until he had gone back to Brazil. It was later discovered by gardaí that he had his bags packed and had a flight to Brazil booked for the following day and a return flight back to Ireland a month later.

When is enough enough?

Susanne Delaney

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