Galway man jailed for rape of daughter

This report is a localnews.ie summary based on public court reporting and records; sources are listed below.

A Galway man was sentenced to 11-and-a-half years in prison for raping his daughter, with the final 15 months suspended. Mr Justice Michael Moriarty imposed the sentence. The proceedings were reported on 13 November 2017.

The man, who cannot be named to protect his daughter’s anonymity, had denied one count of rape and six counts of sexual assault. A jury found him guilty after a trial earlier that year. The offences occurred between August 1991 and August 1993, beginning when his daughter was nine years old.

The trial heard that he was carrying a shotgun when he first assaulted her and threatened to shoot her mother if she told anyone. He repeated the threat after raping her on another occasion. She told her sister about the assaults in 2006.

The court heard that the man did not accept the jury’s verdict and intended to appeal his conviction.