Father loses appeal against conviction for sexually abusing his daughter

The Court of Appeal today dismissed the man's appeal. File photo

A father has lost an appeal against his conviction for orally raping his daughter on the basis that she failed to notice three plastic implants he had surgically inserted underneath the foreskin of his penis.

The man's legal team had submitted that the case was "truly exceptional" by reason of the inconsistency between the presence of visible implants in the man's penis and his daughter's evidence that nothing visible was there at the time of the offences.