Victim of 'predatory' rape says 22-month wait on sentence appeal put 'question mark' over justice

A woman who was raped at eighteen has welcomed the Court of Appeal's decision to uphold a seven-year custodial sentence imposed on her attacker. The complainant, who waived anonymity, told the court that a 22-month delay in determining the appeal had prolonged her distress and cast doubt on the justice she believed she had received at sentencing two years prior. The defendant, aged thirty and from Castlebar, County…