Man found guilty of raping woman in Dublin hotel

A convicted killer and rapist has been found guilty at the Central Criminal Court of raping a woman in a Dublin hotel room.

Michael Murphy aka Michael Barrett (aged 54), of no fixed abode but originally from Burnage, Manchester, had escaped from an English psychiatric hospital in November 2006 where he was being detained since being convicted in 1994 of raping a teenager. He also has a previous conviction in England for manslaughter.