Two years for theft while on bail for rape charge

A taxi driver was robbed of the purse around her neck after driving a man from Cork City to a dark laneway in Buttevant, North Cork.

The culprit was on High Court bail on a rape charge at the time. He was jailed last month at the Central Criminal Court for nine years for that crime, where the evidence was that he held the victim down while an accomplice raped her in a park.

Keith Aherne, aged 23, appeared before Judge David Riordan at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday for sentencing on the charge of robbing the taxi driver of her cash on September 14, 2016.