Court restores ten-year sentence in marital rape case

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Supreme Court reinstates ten year sentence imposed on a man for the rape of his wife in 2014

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The Supreme Court has reinstated a ten-year sentence imposed on a man for the rape of his wife in 2014.

He said the judge in the original trial correctly characterised the offence as being in the upper bracket of the more serious category of rape cases. On 25 May 2014, there was a row in the kitchen, the husband produced a knife and threatened his wife that he would "cut open" her face. He ordered her upstairs and raped her.

On 7 August 2014, he turned up at her parents' home claiming to have a present for the child. Instead, he produced a hammer and struck his wife several times on the head and also hit her mother on the head with it.The man pleaded guilty in the Central Criminal Court to the hammer attack, but denied the rape charges and three threats to kill.That prison time was incorrectly reduced to eight years and six months by the Court of Appeal following the man's appeal.

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This is great, it's reflected in the recent undue leniency case just taken by the solicitor gen in the UK. Hopefully using victim blaming and rape culture to refuse to properly punish violent men is over. Times up rapists.

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