{"id":181342,"date":"2025-12-08T16:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/181342\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T16:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:40:12","slug":"serial-rapist-branded-danger-to-society-as-hes-jailed-for-campaign-of-abuse-against-half-brother-and-two-girls-he-babysat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/181342\/","title":{"rendered":"Serial rapist branded \u2018danger to society\u2019 as he\u2019s jailed for \u2018campaign of abuse\u2019 against half brother and two girls he babysat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Philip Murphy is already serving a 10-year sentence for two random sex attacks on women in Dublin city centreHis brother, Michael Murphy (48), was also jailed today for rapeHis half brother, Thomas Ryan, has waived his anonymity so Philip Murphy can be named\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Philip Murphy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e13f4af0-50fa-478e-9606-42b6e3f81c59.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Philip Murphy<\/p>\n<p>Declan Brennan, Isabel Hayes and Ken Foy<\/p>\n<p>Today at 15:47<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A \u201cmost dangerous sexual predator\u201d has been jailed for 15 years for the repeated rape and sexual abuse of his younger brother and two young girls 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Philip Murphy (45) engaged in a \u201cprotracted campaign of sexual abuse\u201d against his half brother, Thomas Ryan, and two young girls he babysat on dates between 1994 and 1998, Mr Justice Paul Burns said when sentencing him at the Central Criminal Court today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philip Murphy is already serving a 10-year sentence for two random sex attacks on women in Dublin city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-181342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}