Man jailed for raping woman who was temporarily paralysed by spiked drugs

A man who raped his landlord when she was in a state of temporary paralysis after her drugs were spiked and she was raped by another man, has been jailed for seven years.

Dmitrus Alenikovs (31), with a former address in Dublin 24, was convicted at the Central Criminal Court in October of one count of rape in June 2016. The court heard the victim wishes for Aleinkovs to be identified but to retain her anonymity.

Alenikovs returned to Latvia before he was charged and has been in custody since his extradition back to Ireland in December 2022.

Imposing sentence on Friday, Ms Justice Karen O’Connor said Aleinkovs’s behaviour towards the victim was “degrading and humiliating” in light of the woman’s vulnerability.

She said this case was about the “horrific treatment of a human being, a vulnerable woman” who was “rendered powerless by a person who drugged and raped her”.

Ms Justice O’Connor noted the woman was then “subjected to further attack by a person who was living in…

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