Irish taxi driver to serve 30 years for multiple rapes

A taxi driver, 50, who targeted vulnerable women going home at night has bagged a sentence of 17 years for raping two young women on separate nights in 2022.

Central Criminal Court, Dublin
Central Criminal Court, Dublin. Photo: rte.ie

From Melrose Cresent, Clondalkin in Dublin, Raymond Shorten, was earlier this week sentenced to 13 years behind bars for raping and sexually assaulting a seven-year old girl in 2012.

Shorten will be serve his jail term for 30 years in total as a judge ruled the sentences should run consecutively.

The Irish man had denied all the allegations against him, however, was found guilty in separate trials earlier this year by juries.

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