McGinley only served five years

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.

Originally sentenced to 12 years with four years suspended, he was let out early after impressing prison authorities with his enthusiasm for attending the sex offenders’ programme aimed at rehabilitating men like him.

But in 2008, he forced his way into the home of an 86-year-old woman in the early hours of the morning and raped her repeatedly. Her daughter described in court how her independent, active mother who had loved life had been reduced to a shadow of her former self by the attack.