Aurelijus Kizelavicius jailed for rape after appeal

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Aurelijus Kizelavicius was resentenced for rape and assault causing harm at the Court of Appeal on 11 November 2019 to nine years’ imprisonment, with the final two years suspended. The offences were committed in County Monaghan on 29 March 2015 after he gave the woman a lift home.

The court increased the sentence after the Director of Public Prosecutions argued that the original sentence was unduly lenient. The judgment recorded significant additional violence, including repeated blows to the woman’s face, while noting his guilty plea and late expression of remorse.