Serial rapist has sentence reduced

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reduced the life sentence imposed on a serial rapist for a sexual assault on a young woman while she walked to a friend's house to one of 13 years in prison.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reduced the life sentence imposed on a serial rapist for a sexual assault on a young woman while she walked to a friend's house to one of 13 years in prison.

Today the three judge CCA said that the sexual assault committed by Gerard Kelly was not of the exceptional nature that it merited the imposition of a life sentence.

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