Wexford men fail to get rape sentences quashed

Two Wexford men who forced their way in to a woman's house and raped her while her young child was in an adjacent room have failed in their attempts to have their convictions and 14-year sentences quashed on appeal.

John Connors (aged 28) and Patrick Moorehouse (aged 25) were each jailed for 14 years by Mr Justice George Birmingham in February 2009 after a Central Criminal Court jury unanimously found them guilty of raping the woman at her home on August 31, 2006.