Rapists and their sentences

CompiledJanuary 2005: Paul Buckley, aged 32, of Baker’s Road, Gurranabraher, was given a four-year sentence by Mr Justice Paul Butler for the rape and assault causing harm of a 25-year-old woman in the garden of a house in April 2002.

He tries to choke his victim and threatens to kill her if she doesn’t stop screaming. DPP appeals the leniency of the sentence.

In October, Buckley has his sentence increased by three years by the Court of Criminal Appeal.