Violent rapist 'prayed for victim'

A Dublin father-of-three who violently raped a woman he had just met that night at a house party has been remanded in custody pending sentence at the Central Criminal Court.

James Kelly (aged 30) of Willow Wood View, Hartstown, pleaded guilty on the morning of his trial to one count each of rape, anal rape and oral rape of the now 35-year-old woman at a Dublin apartment on April 4, 2007. He was registered as a sex offender.