Court rules child rapist can be named five years after gagging order

Mr Justice Hunt said that Paul Gregory's anonymity, and any waiving of it, was there to benefit the victims. File picture: iStock

A hospital groundsman convicted five years ago of the repeated rape of his wife's two sons can be named for the first time this week after the lifting of a court gagging order.

In 2015 Paul Gregory (aged 56) of Lucky brook house, Cronroe, Ashford, Co. Wicklow, pleaded guilty to 205 counts of rape and sexual assault of his wife's two sons at his Co. Wicklow home. The victims were under 10 years old when the abuse started in 1993 and the attacks continued for a decade.