Patrick O'Driscoll re-sentenced for Cork rape

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Patrick O'Driscoll was re-sentenced for rape by the Court of Appeal on 19 October 2020, receiving seven years in prison and five years of post-release supervision.

He was convicted of raping a woman at a house in County Cork on 10 May 2016, when he was 18.

The Court of Appeal rejected his challenge to the conviction and found no error in the original headline sentence of 10 years.

The court quashed the sentence and imposed seven years' imprisonment with a five-year supervision order after release.