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2023-05-19 · Portlaoise, Laois
In May 2023 the Court of Appeal increased the sentence of Christopher Rafter, 49, from four‑and‑a‑half years to seven years' imprisonment with the final 12 months suspended. Rafter had pleaded guilty to raping and sexually assaulting his two younger sisters, Dolores Prendergast and Linda Rafter, between 1989 and 1993 while he was a minor. The…
2023-04-24 · Portlaoise, Laois
The State has argued at the Court of Appeal that the four-and-a-half-year jail sentence imposed on Christopher Rafter for the rape and sexual assault of his two younger sisters was too lenient. Rafter, of Portlaoise, Co Laois, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to offences committed between 1989 and 1993. Ms Fiona Murphy SC,…