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Tue 07 Jul 1999Court upholds 7-year sentence for `particularly serious' rape
A Co Kerry man jailed for seven years for the "particularly serious" rape of a married woman who was giving him a lift home failed yesterday to have his sentence reduced.
Mr Justice Keane, presiding at the Court of Criminal Appeal, said it could not conclude that the trial judge had erred in principle when jailing Liam Sheehy for seven years' penal servitude.
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