Today's other courts stories in brief
Man (31) to be sentenced today for rape
A Limerick man who raped a Tipperary woman in her home will be sentenced today by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.
Roger Ryan (31), Clonlong caravan site, O’Malley Park, Limerick, was found guilty at a trial in Clonmel in January to raping the woman on June 16th, 2006.
Garda Sharon Moloney said Ryan’s 85 previous convictions included kidnap, assault, burglary, theft and criminal damage offences.
She told Paul Coffey SC, prosecuting, that the rape happened after Ryan broke into the house in the early hours of the morning.
Mr Coffey told Mr Justice Carney that the DPP considered the crime to be at the upper end of the scale for sentence because of the break-in and the violence he used.
Brendan Nix SC, defending, said he hoped some time to appear in a case in which “the DPP will say he puts the crime at the lower end of the scale for sentence”.
He submitted that this case was not at the higher end of the scale because there was no weapon used and there were two other people in the house when Ryan came in.
He said Ryan could not read or write and had got assistance to send a letter to the court in which he again apologised for raping the woman and said that when he had completed whatever sentence was imposed, he would change his life and never come before the court again.
Murder accused to face retrial
A Dublin man accused of murder faces a retrial later this year after a jury failed to reach a verdict last week, it was confirmed yesterday.
The Central Criminal Court heard yesterday that Brian Rattigan (28), Cooley Road, Drimnagh, Dublin, who is accused of murdering Declan Gavin (21), Mourne Road, Drimnagh, at Crumlin Road, Crumlin, on August 25th, 2001, will face trial again in November.
Woman’s husband to give evidence
The husband of a woman who collapsed and died while waiting for a bed in the AE department of the Mater hospital is to give evidence when the inquest reopens in May.
Beverley Seville-Doyle (39) Priory Walk, Manor Grove, Whitehall Road, Dublin, left her chair in the AE department shortly after 6am on the morning of January 15th, 2008, to use the toilet.
Minutes later the mother of three suffered a collapse in the toilet.
Dublin City Coroner’s Court heard yesterday that the consultant endocrinologist at the Mater hospital, Dr Brendan Kinsley, would give evidence when the inquest reopened in May along with the deceased woman’s husband, Charles Doyle, on what will be the sixth day of the hearing.
The coroner has reserved his position on whether to recall the pathologist who supervised the postmortem, Dr Michelle Harrison.