2015-01-12
Eight years for rapist who told woman he was going to "take her up to the mountains and chop her up"
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Judge Martin Nolan suspended the last three years of a ten year sentence on condition that Melia be of good behaviour for three years after his release. He also jailed the father of four for one year for an offence of possessing stolen social welfare cheques at Cappagh Post Office, Finglas on dates in January and February 2013, resulting in an effective eight year sentence.