Mum of alleged rape teen: I knew something wasn’t right

Daughter ‘was covered in mud’

THE mother of a teenage girl at the centre of an alleged park rape told a jury yesterday she felt “something wasn’t right” when her daughter returned home from a night out. The girl – who was 14 at the time – was supposed to be staying with a friend after attending a birthday party in a pub. However, she returned home in the early hours of the morning “steaming drunk”, wearing wet clothes covered in mud and with leaves in her hair. William George Mcveigh denies raping her in Woodvale Park, North Belfast, as well as sexual activity with a child and sexual assault in the early hours of October 31, 2015. Belfast Crown Court heard the 28-year old, of Forthriver Green, Ballygomartin, in the West of the city, claimed she told him she was 19 and anything sexual that occurred between them was consensual. During day three of the trial, the girl’s mother revealed how she felt “something wasn’t right” when her daughter arrived home at 3.30am. She told jurors: “I asked who she had been with and she said she couldn’t remember. “Mr first instinct was to check her underwear so I lifted her skirt up and her underwear was the same as her dress – grey, muddy and wet.” After changing her SCENE Woodvale Park in North Belfast daughter into pyjamas and covering her with a quilt, her mother went to bed – but woke her at 8am. She added: “I told her to go to her room so I could speak to her alone. She just looked at me blankly and followed me up the stairs. “I told her I was taking her to the doctors. I asked her a lot of times what happened but she kept saying she couldn’t remember. I thought saying I was taking her to the doctors would shock her into telling me something, but she started crying and begging me to take her to the doctors. “When I asked why, she said she was scared in case something had happened.” The mother revealed the girl also told her she felt “different down below”. She said her daughter then said the more she thought about it, she could remember being in Woodvale Park with a man but couldn’t remember who he was or what had happened. The case continues.

She started crying and begging me to take her to the doctors GIRL’S MUM BELFAST CROWN COURT YESTERDAY