‘It felt like she was supporting a rapist’

A VICTIM of Cork rapist Trevor Casey has told how her psychological torment was compounded by the spectre of political involvement in his sentencing.

The 21-year-old woman has said she and her younger sister had suffered both physically and emotionally since Casey, aged 31, began raping them.

She even started cutting herself to try to cope with the trauma but has struggled to get on with her life.