'Sorry for being a bollocks': Text from farmer who raped his ex-partner after high-speed garda chase

A Limerick farmer has been sentenced to six years in prison for raping his ex-girlfriend following a high-speed car chase with gardaí.

Eamon Roche (aged 28) of Ballymorrough, Templeglantine, Co Limerick, texted the victim hours after he raped her saying, “Sorry for being a bollocks,” the Central Criminal Court has heard.