Rapist who beat victim to a pulp jailed for 7 years

A rapist was jailed yesterday for seven years for what the sentencing judge described as a horrific rape where the victim was beaten to a pulp.

Mr Justice Paul Carney imposed a total sentence of 10 years on Sylvster Torrens, aged 32, with an address at Spring Lane, Blackpool, Cork, with the last three years suspended on condition that he would stay away from the victim in perpetuity.

The judge said at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cork that the facts of the rape were horrific and that threats were made by Torrens to kill the woman throughout the violent attack where he beat her to a pulp.