Cork man gets 15 years for stabbing and raping woman after climbing into her apartment

The judge set a headline sentence of 23 years before he imposed a sentence of 16 years. He suspended the final year on strict conditions. File photo

A woman who was raped, stabbed and beaten by a stranger who climbed in her bedroom window as she slept warned the man was a “danger to society”.  

Edmund O'Sullivan, aged 32, was jailed on Tuesday for 15 years with a post-release supervision order of eight years after Mr Justice Paul McDermott said “the overall supervision of this man must be closely monitored”.