Two men convicted of rape and sexual assault in hotel car park

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Two men were convicted of rape and sexual assault at the Central Criminal Court on 21 February 2024, after a jury returned verdicts in their trial.

The first defendant was convicted of rape, oral rape and two counts of sexual assault. The second was convicted of oral rape; the jury could not reach a verdict on the rape charge against him. The incident was alleged to have happened in a hotel car park in Leinster in December 2017.

The men, who denied wrongdoing, were remanded in custody pending sentence on 22 April. A victim impact report was ordered for that date.