Seamus Marley (45) with an address at Belfield Court, Stillorgan Road, Dublin, had pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to charges of sexual assaulting and anally raping two boys in Co Louth on dates in the early 1990s
File photo. Image: Sasko Lazarov/Rollingnews.ie File photo. Image: Sasko Lazarov/Rollingnews.ie AN ALLEGED “IRA man” who raped two teenage boys at a “republican safe house” two decades ago has been jailed for seven years.
After hearing evidence on Monday, Mr Justice Paul McDermott remanded the man in custody. Today, he sentenced him to a number of concurrent and consecutive prison terms, amounting to a total operative sentence of seven years. Detective Garda Seamus Nolan told Gageby that Marley was one of these guests in the early 1990s and that he was welcomed into the family.
The younger victim was given alcohol by Marley and was groped or masturbated by him on three or four occasions. During the trial, Detective Garda Nolan told John Fitzgerald SC, defending, that gardaí had no intelligence that the accused was involved in any paramilitary organisation until the complainants came forward with their allegations and that the accused had never been arrested for any “alleged subversive activities”.In his victim impact statement, which was read out in court, the older victim said he has spent the previous 27 years living in despair and looking over his shoulder.
He said it had taken longer to reach this point than it should have as “people with power sought to protect their own interests”.
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