Man fails in appeal against conviction for raping daughter

The Court of Criminal Appeal has today refused a forty-nine-year-old man leave to appeal against his conviction for the rape and sexual of his daughter over a nine-year period.

In November last year the man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty to 72 counts of rape, oral rape and sexual assault of his daughter at her mother’s home and other locations between June 17, 1991 and June 30, 2000.