A man who abducted a woman and subjected her to a five-hour ordeal in the Dublin and Wicklow mountains is to be sentenced today.
Robert Quigley (27), Seskin View Road, Tallaght, Dublin, and living rough in Kerry for a year, pleaded guilty at Tralee Circuit Criminal Court to assaulting the woman at Military Road, Glasamucky, Co Dublin; to falsely imprisoning her in Wicklow and Dublin, and to sexually assaulting her at Military Road on November 19th last.
The woman (22) had been a student in Dublin, and on the night she passed her exams she went socialising with friends and family in Harcourt Street and afterwards to a night club.
She left the night club to look for a taxi and got in a back seat door of Quigley's parked car seeking to be brought home. She fell asleep in the back, and when she woke, Quigley said he was a garda and that she was in trouble as someone had placed cocaine in her bag.
He bound her hands with cable ties and assaulted her physically and sexually.
She was struck repeatedly on the head with punches and with a Garda-type baton, and was covered in blood. The woman escaped at dawn after her attacker was startled by a group of walkers, and she managed to get out of the car.
Quigley is to be sentenced in Limerick Circuit Court today.