"Depravity amounting to torture": Appeal Court finds eight-year sentence for raping neighbour's daughter too lenient
The Court of Appeal has determined that an eight-year prison sentence imposed on a Roscommon man convicted of raping his neighbour's daughter was unduly lenient. President of the Court of Appeal Mr Justice Seán Ryan delivered the decision on 1 December 2014, describing the offences as standing "on the most heinous level" and involving "depravity amounting to torture". The man had pleaded guilty to multiple counts of…
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The Court of Appeal has found that an eight-year prison sentence imposed on a man for raping his neighbour's daughter was too lenient. In its decision delivered today, President of the Court of Appeal Mr Justice Seán Ryan said the man's crimes stood “on the most heinous level” of offending which inv
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