2018-05-17
Court upholds father's conviction for brutal, repeated rape of teen daughter
Stage: Appeal
Finding: Found guilty
Outcome: Found guilty
Case-subject index
Court reports mentioning Patrick O'Driscoll
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2018-05-15
Father-of-nine convicted of repeatedly raping daughter must await appeal fate
Stage: Appeal
Finding: Found guilty
Outcome: Found guilty
2017-01-17
Father-of-nine who raped teenage daughter is jailed for nine years
Stage: Sentence
Finding: Found guilty
Outcome: Found guilty; Ms O'Driscoll (24), who was not in court for the sentence, previously waived her right to anonymity. In her victim impact statement, read out by Garda Michael Dolan, Ms O'Driscoll said she missed her brothers and sisters very much. "We were very close siblings but it was taken away by a very sick man," she said. "I feel I'm serving a life sentence, even though I didn't do anything wrong.