Daughter hears boyfriend raping her mother on mobile phone
Evoke Staff
Pic: File
A man raped his girlfriend before also raping her mother days later, after holding a knife to her throat, a court has heard.
The mother, 60, was saved when her daughter heard the attack taking place in the background of a voicemail the attacker had left her by accident.
The 47-year-old Waterford man, who cannot be named to protect the women's identity, has previously served a lengthy sentence for raping his daughter over a four-year period.
A woman heard her mother being raped on a voicemail message on her phone Pic:File
At the time of the attacks on his girlfriend and her mother, he was on bail for kidnapping and seriously assaulting the same girlfriend the previous year.
Last December he was jailed for three and a half years for the kidnapping.
The man faces a strong possibility of life imprisonment for the latest attacks.
His defence counsel asked Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy to impose a determinate sentence so the man 'can work towards a target date'.
The judge adjourned finalisation until May 3. The man pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to rape of the two women in various ways between July 2 and July 5, 2015, at locations in Dublin.
He also pleaded guilty to false imprisonment, attempted rape, aggravated burglary, making threats to kill and aggravated sexual assault.
When Gardai called to the woman's house her attacker threatened to kill her Pic: File
Detective Inspector Paul Cleary told Kerida Naidoo SC, prosecuting, that the ordeal started after the accused became angry when his girlfriend's mother refused to let him into their house.
They went to another location where the accused raped his partner. She later fled, and two days later she had a missed call and a voicemail from the accused.
In the background of the voicemail she could hear her mother saying: 'I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.'
Earlier the man had forced his way into the house after the mother opened the door to him.
He punched her and held a Stanley knife to her throat. Gardaí went to the mother's home. As officers banged on the door the accused told the woman he would kill her.
Detective Inspector Cleary said the woman was left traumatised and now felt like a prisoner in her own home.
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