Bláthnaid Raleigh

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Talking Bollox Podcast · Episode 276 w/ Blathnaid Raleigh · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

So I didn't really realize the gravity of it straight away.

And it wasn't until I was like the poor guy at the front desk.

Then when I said like, oh, it's a sexual assault, I could just see the panic in his face.

Like, oh, shit.

And he's like, oh, you'll have to go into the back for that.

So I was brought into the back room.

And I was interviewed then and then I kind of realised there was more and more kind of people coming in to me and explaining stuff.

And I'd say I didn't really realise for a long time the gravity of it.

It wasn't until the detective dealing with the case said to me after, like he had been charged at this stage, so maybe a year or so after it.

And she said, like, there's rape, which is bad, like awful.

And she's like, and there's this, like, she was like, there's a different severity or badness to this.

And I suppose I didn't really see that, you know, see that violence in it.

I didn't allow kind of that because I think...

in a way, your brain kind of doesn't allow you to accept how bad things can be.

It's the only, like, protection thing if you allowed yourself to sit with... Yeah, it is like a coping mechanism.

I think if you allowed yourself to kind of think that you'd never... Yeah, you'd never do anything.

You'd never do anything.

He was charged with rape and then aggravated sexual assault, which is...

they give the title of, so it's a section three, so the most severe section, but it's aggravated because of the violence in it that was for the bottles and that kind of thing.

But, you know, like people often said to me afterwards, like, you know, when you hear the fact that he used plastic bottles, you think, oh my God, that is...

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