Kildare man gets ten years for kidnap and rape

A Kildare man who kidnapped and raped a Waterford woman in her bedroom while gardaí stood outside the door has been given a ten-year sentence by Mr Justice Kevin O'Higgins at the Central Criminal Court.

Barry Farrell (aged 24) formerly of Pacelli Road, Naas pleaded guilty in March after a jury was sworn in for his trial to false imprisonment, rape and to causing criminal damage on the night of June 23-24, 2007.