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Violent rapist who harassed female journalists further jailed for breaching release conditions
Summary
Mark McAnaw, aged 53 and previously of Letterkenny, County Donegal, has been sentenced to an additional ten months in custody following a breach of suspended sentence conditions at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. McAnaw pleaded guilty last month to harassing three female journalists in August 2023 and was handed an eleven-year sentence for those offences. He had been released from custody in July 2023 on the suspended portion of an earlier eight-year-four-month sentence for aggravated burglary, imposed in 2023. Judge Martin Nolan activated ten months of the sixteen-month suspended element, to run consecutively to the existing eleven-year sentence. The court heard McAnaw sent threatening emails and messages to the women and attended their workplace. He is currently detained in the Central Mental Hospital. A lifelong contact prohibition and exclusion order have been imposed.
Who, what, where, when and why
What: Report matter: Violent rapist who harassed female journalists further jailed for breaching release conditions. Procedural stage: sentence
When:
- August 2023 Incident
- June 2023 Incident
- July 2023 Incident
- 2025-07-11 Publication
Case subjects
Convicted Person
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: The judge noted he could activate none, all or part of the suspended portion of the 2023 sentence, which would run consecutive to the 11-year sentence imposed on McAnaw last month. McAnaw refused to enter a bond before the court last month, which would have suspended the final 12 months of the 11-year sentence imposed.
Places mentioned
- Dublin
- Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
- Talbot Street
- Central Mental Hospital
Topics
Burglary Harassment Stalking Stage Sentence Violent Crime
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