Supreme Court restores 10-year jail term for man who raped his wife

The Supreme Court, in a decision with important implications for rape sentencing, has reinstated an effective 10-year jail sentence imposed on a man for raping his wife after that had been cut to eight and a half years.

This was a case correctly characterised by the trial judge, Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy, as being in the “upper bracket of the more serious category of rape cases”, he said. The appeal concerned the rape sentence only and did not concern concurrent sentences imposed for threats by the man to kill the woman and a hammer attack by him on her some days after the rape.

Speaking after the judgment, the woman said the Supreme Court decision was a “huge relief” for herself and her family and would have very important implications for future cases of domestic and sexual violence. The woman was married to the man, from an African country, for some years ago and they had a child before their relationship deteriorated. On May 2nd 2014, after a major row involving an altercation, they agreed to separate.

On August 6th 2014, her mother let him into her parents home where he produced a hammer from a bag, struck the woman several times on the head and also hit her mother on the head. He fled after neighbours intervened and was later arrested.The man was convicted at the CCC of charges related to the hammer attack, rape and three threats to kill and concurrent sentences were imposed.

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