’I will never forgive him’: Man jailed for raping boy, then 12, in Tipperary

A Tipperary man who raped a 12-year-old boy after luring him down a lane has received a five and a half year sentence, reports Isabel Hayes and Brion Hoban.

Andrew Roche (28), with an address in Nelson Street, Clonmel, Tipperary, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to one count of orally raping the boy and one count of anally raping him on a date between December 25, 2008 and March 17, 2009.