'Monster' has sentence almost doubled for rape and repeated sexual assault of daughter

Aimee Foley said sentencing for sexual offences in Ireland can be "appalling but today it has proven to work in my favour".

Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy quashed the original sentence and replaced it with one of 10 years with the final six months suspended for a period of five years. File picture

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A "monster" who gave his daughter drugs and alcohol, sexually assaulted her repeatedly over a six-year period and raped her when she was 15 has had his five-year prison sentence almost doubled by the Court of Appeal.