Rapist apologises for hitting victim in 'leafy Cork suburb'

A 32-year-old salesman who raped and battered a woman in April 2002 in a leafy Cork suburb is scheduled to be sentenced on January 26 by Mr Justice Paul Butler at the Central Criminal Court.

Paul Buckley, of Baker’s Road, Gurranabraher was found guilty by a jury in November of raping and assaulting the woman causing her harm between 10.00pm on April 7 and 2am on April 8, 2002 in what the jury was told was "a leafy suburb of Cork".