A man has been given a nine-year sentence for the violent oral rape of a young foreign student at a house in Donegal. He was convicted by the jury last month of orally raping the girl and sexually assaulting her in October 2010.
Mark McAnaw (40), Harrow View, Harrow, Middlesex, England, denied the charges initially and claimed that he had simply hugged and comforted the 19-year-old student. He later told the jury during his 10-day trial at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin that the young woman had instigated sex and led him to her bedroom.
The court heard she had resisted so strongly that a radiator was pulled off her bedroom wall.
He has three previous convictions for public order
in Ireland and a number of convictions from England, which included a 1989 conviction for kidnapping.