French student's rapist jailed for eight years

A Limerick man who raped a virgin teenage French student has been jailed for eight years by Mr Justice Roderick Murphy at the Central Criminal Court.

Francis Goggin (aged 33), a father of two, of Lee Estate, Limerick was convicted by a jury on December 3, 2004 of kidnapping, raping and committing aggravated sexual assault on the then 19-year-old French woman.