A woman has been arrested on suspicion of threatening a rape victim after a criminal trial in Dublin this week.
Gardaí have arrested the woman in connection with an allegation of making threats to kill or cause harm to the injured party in the trial, which concluded at the Criminal Courts of Justice on Monday last.
The woman, in her early 20s, is currently detained at a Garda Station in County Leitrim under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984
On Monday, two men were jailed for seven years for raping a woman at a house in 2017.
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Both men had pleaded not guilty and, after the sentence was handed down, some of their supporters were heard shouting at the woman.
