Son accused of twice raping his mother

As the case against the accused opened, the jury of seven men and five women heard how the complainant initially thought she was dreaming, before jumping out of bed and confronting her son.

A recorded police interview which was conducted with the complainant in the wake of her allegations was played to the court.

In the recording, the complainant said the incident occurred in the early hours of February 3 last year. She also told police that this wasn’t the first time her son raped her.

The accused, who cannot be identified to protect the identity of his mother, has denied raping his mother last February, and on a prior occasion between August and October, 2018.

Before the police interview was played, the jury heard from Crown barrister Charles MacCreanor QC, who said this was a case of a drunken woman being sexually taken advantage of by her son.

Mr MacCreanor said that on the evening of Saturday February 3, the complainant had been at her sister’s house where she drank almost a 10-glass bottle of vodka.

She arrived back at her north Belfast home at around 3am and spoke to her son, who was in his room on his Play Station. She then went to bed, but woke a short time later as she felt someone having sex with her.

The complainant thought she was dreaming, but after jumping out of bed and turning on the light, she discovered her son crouched down at the end of her bed wearing a pair of orange boxer shorts.

Mr MacCreanor said the complainant confronted her son and starting yelling at him. He denied raping her and said he had been in her room as he was looking for a cigarette.

During this confrontation, the complainant told her son that she believed he had done the same thing to her on a previous occasion when she had been sleeping.

The prosecutor said: “She then rang her daughter, this was around 4.30am, to tell her about what her son had just done to her.”

After telling her son to get out of the house, he started to walk to his ex-partner’s home. He was later arrested and interviewed, and when the allegations were put to him, he denied raping his mother.

The complainant was medically examined by a doctor who concluded they were caused by blunt force trauma as a result of sexual intercourse.

At hearing.