The number of cars being abandoned across the country has rocketed by 260% since 2014.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the State’s appeal against the undue leniency of an eight-year sentence handed down to a Dublin man who viciously raped and threatened to kill a woman he dragged from a busy public road.

A Tallaght man who viciously raped, beat and threatened to kill a woman he abducted from a busy road has received an eight-year sentence with one suspended.