A Clare woman who was allegedly raped at gunpoint by her ex-partner has told the Central Criminal Court that he planned to go on a killing spree and shoot six of her friends.
The trial of the 44 year old Clare man, originally from England, continues in Dublin this week.
He’s pleaded not guilty to (NOT) guilty to 12 charges in all, including various rape charges, false imprisonment, and threatening to kill the woman as well as possession of a shotgun with intent to endanger life in what Gardaí say was a seven hour ordeal at her home in Clare in September of 2007.
The alleged victim of this ordeal has told the Central Criminal Court that the accused planned for her to knock on the doors of her six friends including an ex boyfriend and when they answered he would shoot them with the shotgun he had taken from his cousin.
She said he later put the barrel of the shotgun in his mouth after saying he would rather die than go to prison and that he was not going to kill her but was going to disfigure her with a Stanley knife so she would not be with any other men.
The 44-year-old man pleaded guilty in December 2008 to assaulting the complainant but denies hitting her with the gun and pleaded not guilty to numerous rape charges.
The woman told the jury of seven women and four men that she remained with the accused following the ordeal, even travelling in the same Garda car and holding his hand because he was suicidal and she did not want to leave him alone.
She was pregnant with their second child at the time.
The case continues.
