Slovakian man jailed for rape in Sligo

A former member of the Slovakian police force who raped a female relative in his Sligo home last year has been jailed for eight years by Mr Justice Eamon de Valera at the Central Criminal Court.

Ladislav Pavlak, a 36-year-old divorced father, with an address at Ougham, Riverstown who cried consistently during the sentence hearing, was convicted by a jury earlier this month following an eight-day trial of raping the then 20-year-old woman on August 14, 2006.