Jail for man who threatened to cut ex-partner's fingers off with secateurs and raped her in Cork

Mr Justice Hunt imposed concurrent sentences totalling nine years in relation to the first series of offences and a consecutive sentence of three years with the final two years suspended in relation to the interference with a witness charges. File picture

A man who raped his ex-partner after threatening to cut her fingers off with a garden secateurs has been jailed for 10 years.

At the man's sentence hearing at the Central Criminal Court earlier this year, the Cork woman described how she had stayed in a toxic relationship for 18 years for the sake of her children, whom she loves dearly.