Court of Appeal increases prison sentence of man who raped his wife despite her appeal for clemency

The Court of Appeal has increased the prison sentence of a man who raped his wife at their home in Dublin in 2015.

A man jailed for raping his wife after she asked a judge not to send him to prison has had his sentence increased by the Court of Appeal.

The three-judge court found that the original sentence of five years with two suspended "did not adequately reflect the gravity of the offending conduct" and increased the sentence to seven-and-a-half years with two suspended.