Many times we wondered who exactly had been put on trial here. Nicola Anderson: Often we wondered if it was the young woman being put on trialThe young woman – or the four young men in the dock. Merely a witness in her own rape trial, she was not entitled to her own legal representation and had to rely solely on the crown. A heavy blue curtain had been drawn around the stand so that the young woman did not have to lay eyes on the defendants, though her face emerged on screen in the courtroom. But the young woman could not remember.

Source: Irish Independent March 30, 2018 17:48 UTC