Court gagging order on child rapist and victim cannot be altered, judge says

A High Court judge has said he cannot change an order he made preventing the publication of the names of a convicted child rapist and his victim.

Mr Justice Micheal White said that the court made the order at the wishes of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). When the DPP applied a week later on behalf of the victim to waive her anonymity lawyers for the 49-year-old Wicklow man said there was no basis in law for a victim to do this.