Judge: No credibility for the stock criminals come from

A judge has insisted criminals will get no credibility in court for the stock they come from as she jailed a man for twice raping a teenage schoolgirl.

Sentencing Richard O’Mara, aged 31, to 14 years in prison with the final two years suspended, Ms Justice Tara Burns said there had been a “sense of class” in this case, a sense that the victim was from a “good-for-nothing family” and could not be believed against “the likes of Richard O’Mara”.