The trial of a 30-year-old from Sligo accused of murdering a pensioner has heard that an anonymous 999 caller said a man was tied up in a house, but that investigating gardaí went to the wrong address.

The trial of a 30-year-old from Sligo accused of murdering a pensioner has heard that an anonymous 999 caller said a man was tied up in a house but investigating gardaí went to the wrong address.

A 30-year-old Sligo man has admitted falsely imprisoning and killing pensioner Eugene Gillespie.

The 30-year-old rapist of two children joins 12 other sex offenders serving a life sentence in Irish prisons. While he will be able to start applying for parole after he serves seven years, the average term of life sentences is just over 17 years.

A 29-year-old man has pleaded guilty to the murder of Eugene Gillespie in Sligo.

A 29-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Eugene Gillespie in Sligo Town.

A man convicted of raping an 85-year-old woman has been refused permission to appeal his case to the Supreme Court.

A notorious rapist has failed in an appeal against his conviction for the rape of an 85-year-old woman suffering with Alzheimer’s disease but has succeeded in having the last two years of his 21-year sentence suspended.

The appeal brought by a rapist against his 21-year sentence for the rape of an 86-year-old woman suffering with Alzheimer’s disease has been adjourned for more than a week.

The rapist at the centre of the "C Case" in the 1990s is appealing against his conviction for repeatedly raping an 86-year-old woman.

SIMON MCGINLEY was let out of jail in 2003 after serving just five years for the rape of the 13-year-old girl whose life was left in tatters after the attack.

RAPIST Simon McGinley destroyed the life of his youngest victim, the woman raped by him at the age of just 13 revealed.

A young woman forced to have an abortion after being viciously attacked by a serial rapist today told how she has been left serving a life sentence.

The rapist at the centre of the "C Case" in the 1990's has been jailed for 21 years by Mr Justice George Birmingham for raping an 86-year-old woman in her home last year.

The rapist at the centre of the "C Case" in the 1990s has been found guilty by a Central Criminal Court jury of raping an 86-year-old woman after breaking into her home last year.