A WOMAN told a jury she was "pulled around like a rag doll" by two men she alleges raped, buggered and falsely imprisoned her during a two-hour ordeal on a Wicklow mountain bog road in 1994.
The woman told the Central Criminal Court the men began pulling at her clothes when they let back the seats of the estate car driven by one of them.
She then helped them undress her. "They were really rough and I asked them to stop pulling me around . . . I was scared".
Pressed in cross-examination by defence counsel Mr Paul McDermott SC about her role in the removal of her clothes, she replied: "I do not expect you to understand. They were pulling me around like a rag doll".
It was the second day of the trial of a 27-year-old Kildare man who has pleaded not guilty to four charges alleging that he raped the woman, buggered her, forced oral sex on her and falsely imprisoned her at Powerscourt Mountain, Enniskerry, Co Wicklow, between 10 p.m. on December 29th and 2 a.m. on December 30th, 1994.
The alleged victim, now 25, denied Mr McDermott's suggestion that she smoked cannabis which the accused and the car-driver bought that night.
She said only the accused and car-driver smoked it.
She agreed with Mr McDermott that her handbag had a rip in the lining and she found it useful to hide money she got when working as a prostitute, but denied putting in £100 given to her by the men that night.
She did not get £100 from them, the woman said. The accused grabbed her bag and emptied it to search for money after she gave a condom from it to the car-driver, who wanted full sex.
She has told the jury she said to the car-driver she had "the virus". She denied Mr McDermott's claim she was telling "a blatant lie" that the accused searched through her bag and insisted she had told gardai about that.
The hearing continues before Mr Justice Smith.