A nurse has been found guilty of raping another woman in the toilets at one of Brisbane's most popular hotels. A District Court jury in Brisbane took 13 hours to convict Anne-Marie O'Loughlin, 25, on two counts of digital rape and one of deprivation of liberty at the Caxton Hotel, near the CBD, on November 29 last year. O'Loughlin, who wept as the verdicts were delivered, was found not guilty of a fourth charge of sexual assault. She had pleaded not guilty to all four charges.
O'Loughlin had been in Australia on a criminal charge visa and would have returned home to Ireland on Monday had she been acquitted. However, she was remanded in custody and is unlikely to be sentenced before February. The five day trial heard O'Loughlin attacked the 34-year-old woman in the female toilets of the hotel where she digitally vaginally and anally raped the woman.
The victim, who cannot be named, told the court that although she kissed O'Loughlin in the toilets for up to three minutes, she had not given consent for Ms O'Loughlin to pull up her top and bra and touch her breast. She further claimed she had not consented to being digitally penetrated by O'Loughlin. In a police interview played to the jury, O'Loughlin said she had no memory of kissing the woman but admitted it was possible.
She claimed it was not in her nature to force someone to have sex with her. The court heard also heard evidence from the victim's husband who said he was extremely upset after his wife emerged from the toilets and told him what had happened. He called police and tried to detain O'Loughlin outside the hotel.
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