Hoi Ping Yung jailed for rape in Dublin

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Hoi Ping Yung was jailed for four and a half years for rape at the Central Criminal Court, reported on 6 March 2020.

He was convicted of raping a woman in a hotel room on Harcourt Street, Dublin, on 21 November 2013.

Ms Justice Tara Burns reduced the seven-and-a-half-year headline sentence after considering mitigating factors, including his lack of previous convictions.

Yung had pleaded not guilty, while the court heard that the victim described lasting effects from the rape and trial.