Waterford man jailed for five years for raping prostitute

A Waterford businessman who raped a Croatian prostitute in a local upmarket hotel after hiring her by phone through a Cork-based escorts agency has been given a five years sentence by Mr Justice Barry White.

Billy Keogh (aged 46), a married man and father of six, of Wilder, Kilmeaden was found guilty by a jury in February at the Central Criminal Court of raping the 26-year-old woman who claimed he told her he was a garda and also threatened to throw her out of the hotel window.