CCA reduces sentence of Georgian man jailed for rape

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reduced the prison sentence imposed on a Georgian man jailed for raping a Polish woman on her second night in Ireland from 10 to eight years.

Today the CCA, who rejected an appeal against conviction, suspended the final two years of the ten year sentence imposed on Vasile Vardoshilli (aged 38) on grounds including that the victim had asked that he not receive a lengthy sentence for the sake of his wife and family.