Rapist taxi driver jailed for 21 years

A TAXI driver who subjected three passengers to a four-hour rape ordeal in his flat has been jailed for 21 years at the Central Criminal Court.

Owen Bermingham, aged 37, of Grosvenor Place, Rathmines, picked up the three 20-year-old women at the Sarah Curran disco in Rathfarnham and invited them to his flat. Bermingham had been discharged from St James’ Hospital after overdosing on valium.

After drinking tea and coffee and smoking hash, the women decided to leave because Bermingham had taken a shower and emerged in his boxer shorts.