A Limerick man whose conviction for the rape of a woman in her home was quashed last year has been jailed for 12 years for the offence after a retrial. Hanley was in 2015, after a second trial, sentenced by Ms Justice Deirdre Murphy to 12½ years’ imprisonment. He successfully appealed his conviction last June over the trial judge’s failure to give the jury a corroboration warning. After seven hours of deliberations, a jury of three women and nine men returned a majority verdict of guilty on one count of raping the woman. Hanley and the woman had met some weeks before the attack and there was a sexual element to their relationship.

Source: The Irish Times May 09, 2019 18:56 UTC