'Huge relief': Supreme Court reinstates 10-year jail term for man who raped his wife

The rape happened after the man forced his wife upstairs at knifepoint.

'Huge relief': Supreme Court reinstates 10-year jail term for man who raped his wife

The Supreme Court has reinstated an effective 10-year jail sentence imposed on a man for raping his wife.

Previously the Court of Appeal had cut the sentence to eight and a half years but this was appealed by the DPP to the Supreme Court.

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