Tag Archives: Rape

A 39-year-old man from Co Offaly has been sentenced to 14-and-a-half years in prison for coercively controlling, raping, assaulting, and falsely imprisoning his former partner. Barry Murphy, residing at Shamrock House, Grogan, Ballycumber, was found guilty by a jury on multiple charges including three counts of raping his partner, Lisa O’Meara. The jury also convicted him of coercive control, assault, …

Denis Coulson, a former Irish U20 rugby player, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for the rape of a woman in Bordeaux in 2017. Coulson was among three former FC Grenoble players accused of gang raping a 20-year-old woman following a match in March 2017. After more than nine hours of deliberation, the court delivered majority verdicts for …