Man gets nine years for raping woman he had just met on Tinder

Christopher Feeney had fled the country while gardaí were awaiting instructions from the DPP but was arrested in the UK in 2019 and brought back

Christopher Feeney and his victim met on the dating app Tinder and she travelled from another county to meet him in Sligo town. File photo: Jonathan Brady/PA

A Sligo man who raped a woman he had just met on Tinder has been jailed for nine years.

Christopher Feeney (59) was found guilty of four counts of raping and sexually assaulting the woman at his home address at Millbrook, Riverside, Sligo, on April 26, 2015, following a Central Criminal Court trial last September.