Unnamed respondent resentenced for oral rape after appeal

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An unnamed respondent was resentenced by the Irish Court of Appeal for section 4 oral rape offences, with the proceedings reported on 10 July 2023.

The court set a six-year headline sentence, reduced it by two years for mitigation and imposed a four-year custodial term, suspending the balance for two and a half years.

The suspension required good behaviour, Probation Service supervision and engagement with therapeutic and offence-related programmes; an 18-month term for sexual assault counts remained undisturbed.

The respondent had been sentenced in March 2022 after a late-2021 Central Criminal Court trial and was released in December 2022, so the appeal court declined to return him to custody.