69-year-old man convicted of rape has sentence cut

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A 69-year-old man convicted of rape and indecent assault had his 20-year sentence cut by the Court of Appeal on 25 November 2019. The offences involved abuse of two generations of his family.

The court suspended the final two-and-a-half years of the sentence, while leaving the 20-year headline term in place. The man cannot be named to protect his victims’ anonymity. The court said his age should have received additional weight, but described the offending as extremely serious and carried out over a long period against four vulnerable victims.