2014-12-17
Rapist has "very seriously inadequate" six-year sentence doubled
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Not guilty
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; Christopher Farrell (30) had concurrent sentences totalling six years imposed on him by Mr Justice Garrett Sheehan for the rape, oral rape, attempted rape and false imprisonment of one woman and the sexual assault of another on September 16, 2007 at two locations in Co Louth. The Director of Public Prosecutions had today appealed against the sentence imposed on Farrell on the grounds of "undue leniency".