On Friday afternoon in Boston, at the Suffolk Superior Courthouse, a jury decided the fate of a Dublin firefighter charged with rape after a previous jury failed to do so.
Terence Crosbie (39) was found guilty of raping an attorney in a shared hotel room while his colleague Liam O’Brien snored.
The jurors, six men and six women, took frequent notes throughout the proceedings and returned a guilty verdict on the 16th hour of deliberations, to audible cries and sobs from the defendant’s supporters seated in the front row of the gallery.
The case was previously tried in June before a jury of eight men and four women. That jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict.
This time Crosbie was convicted of raping a 29-year-old woman as she slept. The assault occurred in the Omni Parker Hotel in Boston city centre in the early hours of Friday March 15th, 2024, after the victim had consensual sex with Mr O’Brien.
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