Tinder rapist Patrick Nevin appeals against 14-year sentence

A serial sex offender has appealed against the severity of his 14-year sentence for attacking women he met through Tinder.

The father-of-two had been due to stand trial at the Central Criminal Court, but changed his pleas to guilty following a legal ruling, which would allow the prosecution to introduce evidence from the third woman describing sexual assault by Nevin on a first date. Ms Noctor said that the judge had not considered a number of aggravating factors. These included that there was a campaign of offences just days apart, his tricking the victims into positions of vulnerability by driving them in his car to remote locations, the fact that he had carried out the attacks while under a suspended sentence for possession of a firearm and his premeditation.

Ms Noctor also noted that the sentences for the crimes against both women were made concurrent. She submitted that, as these were individual offences, the judge should have either given a greater sentence or imposed some degree of consecutive sentencing. “No matter what way you look at it, the director is arguing for what she already has,” he said, giving examples of much shorter sentences for what he said were similar crimes.

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