No jail for sex assaults on sleeping girlfriend

A man who regularly raped and sexually assaulted his girlfriend in her sleep has received a suspended prison sentence of seven years.

The full extent of the offending only emerged after Magnus Meyer Hustveit, aged 25, wrote to his former partner and told her he had been using her “body for my gratification” for nearly a year.

The Norwegian man, previously of Leo St, North Circular Rd, Dublin, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to one count of rape and one count of sexual assault of a 28-year-old Irish woman at a place in Dublin between 2011 and 2012.