It was Paula Doyle’s best friend who suggested that her husband walk Doyle home.
‘I couldn’t let this monster get away with it’: how I survived rape - and sent my attacker to prison Paula Doyle was raped by a man she had known for years.
Doyle and her partner had taken them to the Garda Síochána (the Irish police force), who advised her to block the number, but that didn’t stop them coming in (sometimes more than 50 a day); it only stopped her from having to view them.
This was why Doyle allowed her friend’s husband, Aidan Kestell, to walk her home that night.
Instead, Kestell raped her, leaving Doyle, in her words, “lifeless, in the bushes, like a piece of rubbish, changed completely”.
