'High-risk' offender who raped woman in Cork while her boyfriend was in same bed re-sentenced

Sentencing judge Mr Justice Michael White noted that O'Driscoll still adamantly denied the charges and so there had been no expressions of remorse. File image

A "high-risk" offender jailed for seven years for the rape of a woman while her boyfriend was in the same bed has been re-sentenced by the Court of Appeal so that he must complete five years of probation supervision upon his release.

In March 2019, Patrick O'Driscoll, now aged 23, of Rosewood Drive, Charleville, Co Cork, was convicted by a Central Criminal Court jury sitting in Cork of raping the woman at a house in Co. Cork on May 10, 2016. O'Driscoll was 18 at the time of the rape.