Waterford man sentenced to 8 years following rape
A High Court judge has warned that if internet drinking contests continue they will result in a 'tsunami of homicide and rape prosecutions' before his court. Mr Justice Paul Carney was speaking as he was sentencing a 38-year-old Waterford man who after drinking six to seven pints of beer raped an acquaintance having offered her a lift home from their local nightclub. The married father of two - who pleaded guilty to rape in a wooded area outside a Waterford town in February 2011 - received an eight year sentence with the final three years suspended. Mr Justice Carney said it was the latest case in a long line in which young men - with no previous convictions - take a quantity of drink they are not used to and end up the following morning facing responsibility for a homicide or a rape.
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