QLD:Jury convicts female toilet rapist

AAP General News (Australia)
12-03-2010
QLD:Jury convicts female toilet rapist

BRISBANE, Nov 29 AAP - A woman has been found guilty of raping another woman in a toilet
cubicle at an inner Brisbane hotel.

Anne-Marie O'Loughlin, 25, had pleaded not guilty in the Brisbane District Court to
two counts of rape, deprivation of liberty and sexual assault.

A jury on Friday afternoon found O'Loughlin guilty of two rape charges and deprivation
of liberty.

She was found not guilty of the sexual assault charge.

The court had been told the victim, who cannot be named, was at the Caxton Street Hotel
with her partner and friends when she went alone to the bathroom and was raped by O'Loughlin
on November 29, 2008.

O'Loughlin first kissed the victim, who kissed her back in a bid to escape, the court was told.

But when the victim tried to leave, O'Loughlin grabbed her by the hair, slammed her
head into a wall and pulled her into a toilet cubicle.

The court was told O'Loughlin then digitally raped the woman.

O'Loughlin left before security came but she forgot her purse containing identification
and it was picked up by the victim.

O'Loughlin was detained outside the hotel and later told police she had only kissed
the woman in the toilets.

The trial heard samples of skin found under O'Loughlin's fingernails matched the victim's DNA.

O'Loughlin, an Irish citizen, has been remanded in custody to be sentenced next year.

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