Man gets 10 years for raping his wife

A man has been jailed for 10 years for threatening, assaulting, and raping his wife as their marriage was breaking down in 2014.

Sentencing the 42-year-old in Dublin Central Criminal Court yesterday, Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy said the assaults were “cowardly” and “brutal”.

“The crime of rape is an attack upon the bodily and psychological integrity of a woman,” she said.