2022-07-28
Victim speaks after coercive control rapist who targeted women through dating sites gets 17 years
Stage: Sentence
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; He imposed a four-year term, to run concurrently, for the offence of coercive control, which has a maximum sentence of five years. Ward, formerly of Ballintlea, Hollyfort, Gorey, Wexford was jailed in 2016 for four years for falsely imprisoning and assaulting a young mother in November 2015.