2024-07-29
Rapist told gardai preyed on vulnerable women 'because it was easy'
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Not guilty
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; A headline sentence of 12 years was reduced to 10 years based on the mitigating factors, including Gogosiou having to serve time in an Irish prison as a Romanian national. Ms Justice Siobhan Lankford handed down a 10-year sentence and suspended the last two years, backdating it to May 23, 2022, for time spent in custody.