Kerry rapist has sentence extended

A Kerry rapist currently serving an eight-year sentence has been jailed for an additional seven years for attempted rape by Mr Justice Kevin O'Higgins at the Central Criminal Court.

James Cronin (aged 24) of Freemount, Rathmore was convicted on December 20 last of the attempted rape of a teenage girl he met in a Killarney disco and with assault with intent to rape her on Christmas Eve 2004.