Kevin Carroll appeals rape conviction as judgment reserved

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Kevin Carroll appealed his rape and anal rape convictions at the Court of Appeal on 20 July 2018, after receiving a 10-year sentence at the Central Criminal Court. The offences concerned a child at an Offaly school between 1996 and 1998, when she was aged between six and eight.

His lawyers argued that the trial judge should have examined claims about a juror’s conduct and discharged the jury over prejudicial hearsay evidence. The prosecution disputed the significance of the juror’s expression, while the Court of Appeal reserved its judgment.