2024-07-25
Former Seminarian has jail term increased for repeated rape of young cousin
Stage: Appeal
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; He was jailed for five years by sentencing judge Mr Justice David Keane, who also imposed a two-year post release supervision order. Counsel said the sentencing judge had identified ten years as a headline sentence if Gallagher had been an adult, but this was reduced to six years because he was a minor for part of the time that the offending occurred.