Man who abused sisters in 1970s gets anonymity over 'culpable delay' in prosecution

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A High Court judge has ordered that a man who raped one sister and abused another in the 1970s cannot be identified, despite the wishes of his victims to waive their anonymity, after his lawyers argued there was "culpable delay" in bringing the prosecution against him. The 68-year-old Donegal man wa

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