Man fails in appeal against sentence for attempted rape

A Donegal man has failed in his appeal against his six-year prison sentence for climbing up a drainpipe and attempting to rape a mother-of-two as she slept in her bedroom.

Raymond Gormley (aged 29) was jailed for six years by Mr Justice Paul Carney in November 2007, after a Central Criminal Court jury found him not guilty of anal rape but guilty of attempted anal rape following a seven-day trial.