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.
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- Convicted rapist who harassed three female journalists gets more jail time - Irish Independent Irish Independent · Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:00:00 GMT
- Mark McAnaw: Convicted rapist who harassed three Sunday World journalists gets more jail time | Crime World - Sunday World Sunday World · Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:00:00 GMT
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