Abuser whose rape conviction was overturned will not face third retrial

A 73-year-old man from County Mayo will not face a third retrial following a Court of Appeal ruling. His rape conviction, overturned in February 2018, will not be prosecuted again after the Director of Public Prosecutions' application for a retrial was refused. The man had been found guilty at the Central Criminal Court in 2015 of indecent assault and multiple counts of sexual assault and rape of a child between…