Court reserves judgement in appeal against rapist's 'lenient' sentence

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the State’s appeal against the undue leniency of an eight-year sentence handed down to a Dublin man who viciously raped and threatened to kill a woman he dragged from a busy public road.

Gary Kinsella (aged 29) was sentenced to eight years with one year suspended by Mr Justice George Birmingham at the Central Criminal Court in April last year, having pleaded guilty to raping, assaulting and threatening to kill the then 37-year-old woman on August 8, 2008.