A Lithuanian man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with raping a Latvian woman in a Co Cavan town last year.
The 38-year-old accused, with an address in Cavan, denies raping the woman during the night of March 11, 2006. He also denies falsely imprisoning her and threatening to kill her on the same date at two separate locations in Counties Cavan and Meath.
The trial continues before Mr Justice Barry White in legal argument in the absence of the and a jury of nine men and three women.