'I will never forget watching my dad cry': Man who raped sleeping woman in Cork home jailed for nine years

Judge said the assault occurred in the victim's own bedroom 'in the dead of night' and that the victim was 'particularly vulnerable'

Imposing sentence, judge described the rape as a 'terrifying experience' and 'predatory in nature'.

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A “predator” who broke into a house "in the dead of night" and raped a woman as she slept has been jailed for nine years.