Child rapist's five trials were not an abuse of process, appeal court finds — Ballina

(Pictured: Liam Carr. Photo: Collins) The Court of Appeal has rejected an argument by a Donegal man jailed for ten years for the repeated rape of a teenager over a five-year period that there was an abuse of process as it took five trials before he was convicted. Liam Carr’s victim had outlined in h

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The Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal against conviction by a Donegal man sentenced to ten years imprisonment for the repeated rape of a teenager. Liam Carr, aged 62, with an address in Ballina, Falcarragh, County Donegal, was convicted following trial at the Central Criminal Court in Sligo in 2021 of 31 counts including sexual assault, anal rape and oral rape of the boy between September 1995 and September…