Sonya McLean
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- Jul 28, 2026
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Doctor jailed for 10 years over raping and assaulting wife (opens the original)
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A doctor has been jailed for 10 years for the rape, coercive control and assault of his wife over three years. The 46-year-old man pleaded guilty to charges of assault causing harm but had denied two charges of rape and one of coercive control. He was convicted of these charges following a trial at Sligo Central Criminal Court earlier this year. The sentence hearing was also held in Sligo. The court heard the couple met in Sudan and were married in 2010 and later went on to have three children.
âI remember the person he used to beâ: Man in cannabis psychosis stabbed childhood friend (opens the original)
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A man who was in a cannabis-induced psychosis when he stabbed his childhood friend in the back in a âbizarreâ and random attack has been given a partly suspended sentence. Neal Brennan (29) of Sutton Lawn, Sutton, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing harm to Cian Brennan (no relation) on January 2nd, 2025 on Station Road, Portmarnock. He has no previous convictions and has been on remand in custody since his arrest following the attack. Garda Dylan Toner told pr
Man set fire to car and robbed shop shortly after serving jail term for killing teenager (opens the original)
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A man who had just served a jail term for his role in killing a 16-year-old girl in 2012 has been jailed for setting fire to a car and robbing a shop last year. Keith Hall (37) had just been released after serving a sentence for the manslaughter of Melanie McCarthy-McNamara, who was shot dead as she sat in a car in Tallaght on February 8th, 2012. She was in the passenger seat of a car with her boyfriend and another man when she was shot with a double-barrelled sawn-off shotgun. The Central Crimi
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