A convicted rapist who is serving a 17-year sentence has been jailed for a further six months for resisting arrest four years ago.
Barry McGee (23), of Foxfield Grove, Raheny, Dublin, was jailed for 17 years on February 21st, 2003, by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court for his rape in their Dublin flat of two Australian women whom he also threatened to kill.
He had pleaded guilty to three counts each of rape and oral rape, one count of attempted rape, two counts of aggravated sexual assault, two counts of threatening to kill, and two counts of false imprisonment of the women on May 5th, 2002.
McGee has now been ordered by Mr Justice Roderick Murphy at the Central Criminal Court to serve six months consecutive to the 17 years following his conviction for resisting arrest on May 20th, 2001, near Tamango disco in Portmarnock, Co Dublin.
He had subjected the then 25-year-old victims in the 2002 rape to four hours of torture, terror and degradation at knife- point.
Det Sgt George McGeary told the court then: "It was one of the most gruesome and horrible cases I have dealt with in the course of my career in the Garda Síochána."
One of the women told the court he had made her feel sure she was going to die. He had waved the knife at her at such close quarters at one stage that it had scraped her ear.
"It would have gone through my head if I had not moved."
McGee felt her heartbeat and told her: "It would take a very big blow to break your breastbone."
She said no one could imagine the feeling a woman would experience having to call her father to say: "I have been sodomised and raped and almost killed.
"I begged him, I told him he could have all the money we had, everything we had."
The second woman said although she might appear reasonably strong in court the past eight months of her life had been "unbelievable".
She said telling her parents that their only daughter had been raped was one of the hardest things she had ever had to do.