Four years for part in gang rape

A man convicted of taking part in the gang rape of a woman he met at a nightclub has been jailed for four years.

Darren Thompson, 23, and two other men raped the woman after she came back to a house with them, telling her: “It’s your birthday surprise.”

Thompson, of Belcare Park, Ballymun, Dublin, pleaded not guilty to rape at a house in Dublin in May 2014. He was convicted by a jury last month.