After 10 hours and 13 minutes of deliberations, the jury returned guilty verdicts to 78 counts which included charges of oral rape, anal rape and sexual assault against eight complainants
The man had denied the charges but was convicted by a Central Criminal Court jury yesterday.
At the opening of the trial last month Dominic McGinn SC prosecuting told the jury that the man was accused of sexual abuse involving both anal and oral rape over a period of 12 years against eight boys. He said one man was sexually assaulted and anally raped by the man between 1995 and 1996 when he was between 11 and 13 years old.The man was convicted of abusing three brothers in one family.
The first of these brothers was orally and anally raped by the accused when he was between 10 and 15 years old.The last of these brothers was sexually assaulted by the man from the time he was 10 to 16 years old.
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