Cork man awaits sentencing for raping two sisters

A Cork man who raped the two teenage sisters of his former girlfriend will be sentenced by Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy in the morning at the Central Criminal Court.

Trevor Casey (aged 31), Closes Road, Fairhill was found guilty last February by a jury on eight charges involving four counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault on dates in 2003 and 2004 at three Cork addresses.

The jury reached its verdicts on day-seven of the trial after over eight hours of deliberation and having spent two nights in a hotel. The victims and their family said they wanted him named in media reports of the case.

The jury failed to reach a decision on three of the counts and acquitted him on three others, two of these by direction of the judge.

Both victims gave evidence that he raped them after they awoke to find him in their beds.

Casey had pleaded not guilty to 14 charges at the start of his trial. He said in evidence that he never had any sexual relationship with either girl and described as "sick" an allegation that he abused one of them while his son slept in the same room.