A Central Criminal Court jury has found two Polish men not guilty after a 31-day trial on four charges of raping a female compatriot in a Galway town last year.
It disagreed on two further rape charges, one each involving both men. These charges will be mentioned again later.
The jury found one of the men, aged 29, guilty on four charges - one each of falsely imprisoning the woman and threatening to seriously injure her, and two counts of assault causing harm.
Mr Justice Henry Abbott remanded him in custody for sentence on July 25th.
Mr Justice Abbot had earlier directed the jury to return not guilty verdicts on four counts of rape, oral rape and anal rape in relation to this man, against whom 12 of the original 18 charges on the indictment had been laid.
The jury returned not guilty verdicts on five of the six charges against his 25-year-old co-accused whom they acquitted of oral rape and rape, false imprisonment, threatening to seriously injure and assault causing harm.
Mr Justice Abbott also modified the charges of false imprisonment in relation to both men to refer to one day only, July 18th, 2004. Originally this charge covered three days, July 16th-18th, 2004.
The now 24-year-old complainant, who was then the girlfriend of the eldest accused, alleged the offences happened between July 16th-18th, 2004, in their rented home in a Galway town and in a car.
The three had been living in Ireland for just over one month then, with the eldest man and the complainant as boyfriend and girlfriend who the jury heard engaged in consensual sex.
Mr Justice Abbott exempted the 11 remaining jurors from further service for the rest of their lives unless any did not wish to avail of the option.
He told the nine men and two women: "You have been a most attentive, intelligent and dutiful jury, and I cannot praise you highly enough for the manner in which you have discharged your duty to the public."
Mr Justice Abbot had earlier discharged one member of the jury on humanitarian grounds due to a serious family problem.