A man with a previous conviction in another country for attempted rape, has been found guilty of ambushing a woman in the public toilets of a Cork town and raping her.
The 30-year-old woman was running errands in the town on the afternoon of 9 March last year.
She was washing her hands at the sink when she was grabbed from behind by 36-year-old Polish man Przemyslaw Jakubowski.
He forced her into a cubicle and raped her repeatedly in an attack that lasted half an hour.
He was wearing items of women's underwear at the time which were later found in his apartment by gardaí.
After his conviction, the jury heard he has a previous conviction for attempted rape in another country and that there will be further details of this when he is sentenced next month.
Jakubowski had arrived in Cork shortly before the attack.
He was found guilty by a jury at the Central Criminal Court following three hours of deliberations and a 12-day trial. He held his head in his hand and muttered to himself as the verdicts were read out.
He will be sentenced on 27 June.
