2025-12-12
'It only took him six weeks to destroy me': criminal who beat, raped and coercively controlled partner to remain in prison after appeal rejected
Stage: Sentence
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; Ward, who was jailed for 17 years, does not accept the verdict of the jury and continues to maintain his innocence. Ward, formerly of Ballintlea, Hollyfort, Gorey, Wexford was also jailed in 2016 for four years for falsely imprisoning and assaulting a young mother in November 2015.