Dublin Fire Brigade member Terence Crosbie in court in Boston. Mr Crosbie denies raping a 29-year-old US attorney in the Omni Park House hotel in Boston on St Patrick's weekend in 2024. Photograph: Susan Zalkind
The Dublin firefighter charged with rape over St Patrick’s Day weekend did a “terrible, terrible thing to another person simply because he wanted to and he thought he could”, a Boston court heard.
Terence Crosbie (39) denies ever touching the 29-year-old attorney, claiming that when he returned to the hotel room he shared with his colleague, Liam O’Brien, shortly before 2am on March 15th, 2014, his bed was empty and the room was dark.
Both the complainant and Mr Crosbie took the stand, bookending the five-day trial in Boston.
In closing arguments on Wednesday, the prosecution and defence presented differing accounts of what they
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