Absconded Carlow rapist subject of televised appeal in FBI hunt

A RAPIST facing a lengthy prison sentence in Arbour Hill is the subject of major public hunt by America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Last month the FBI made a televised appeal in the US for Carlow man Michael Christian Moran, 29, who fled to America days before he was due to be sentenced here for rape.

Moran, formerly of Tullow Road in Carlow has already pleaded guilty to raping the woman in the Blackbog Road area of Carlow in July 1999.