42-year-old man jailed for marital rape and hammer attack

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A 42-year-old man was jailed for ten years at the Central Criminal Court, with the final two years of a 12-year rape sentence suspended, in an outcome reported on 25 July 2016. He was convicted of raping his wife, threatening to kill her and threatening serious harm, and pleaded guilty to attacking her and her mother with a hammer. All sentences were ordered to run concurrently, and he was barred from directly contacting his wife.

Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy said the rape was an attack on a woman’s bodily and psychological integrity. She said the hammer attack was premeditated, sustained and cowardly, and that the offences had a severe and lasting impact on the victims.