Three-time rapist has sentence changed

The Court of Criminal Appeal today varied prison sentences imposed last year by Mr Justice Paul Carney on a serial rapist who raped three woman in vicious attacks in Dublin.

Mr Justice Carney sentenced Salman Aslam Dar (aged 25), a computer science student from Lahore, Pakistan to three consecutive prison sentences of seven years with the final two years suspended after he pleaded guilty last year to the sex attacks between February and June 2004 in Dublin city.