Convicted killer raped woman as five-year-old son slept in next room

Pleaded guilty: Deividas Paliutis will be sentenced later this month

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A convicted Lithuanian killer has pleaded guilty to the rape of a woman in her Rathfriland home as her five-year-old son slept in the next room.

Deividas Paliutis (35) formerly of Rooney Park, Kilkeel, forced his way into the Latvian woman’s home with a gang of up to five Russian men who demanded money before they subjected her a brutal sexual assault on May 9, 2009.