2020-07-30
Alleged 'IRA man' refused more time to appeal rape convictions
Stage: Appeal
Outcome: Credit: Collins) An alleged IRA man jailed for raping teenage boys at a 'republican safe house' over two decades ago, and who was subject to 'severe' verbal abuse by other inmates in prison, has been refused more time to lodge an appeal against his conviction. According to the judge who jailed him last year, the Belfast native had used his standing in the republican movement, a movement 'well capable of clandestine killings', to silence his victims.