Court rejects abuser's claim that jury verdict was "perverse"

A man in his sixties, convicted of sexually assaulting and raping his grand-niece on multiple occasions between 1992 and 1994 at locations in counties Donegal and Dublin, has failed in his appeal against conviction at the Court of Appeal. The appellant, whose identity is protected to safeguard the victim's privacy, was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in May 2017 following his trial at the Central Criminal…