Nine-year sentence for man who raped prostitute

A Dublin man has been jailed for nine years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court for raping a prostitute in a disused railway carriage at Heuston Station.

Martin Stafford (aged 38) with an address at Cork Street in the Coombe area of Dublin, pleaded guilty to raping the then 28-year-old victim on March 10-11, 2005.