{"id":191008,"date":"2025-12-14T07:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/191008\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T07:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:24:09","slug":"i-hope-i-can-begin-the-long-journey-towards-healing-woman-abused-by-cousin-shares-relief-as-his-jail-term-is-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/191008\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I hope I can begin the long journey towards healing\u2019: woman abused by cousin shares relief as his jail term is increased"},"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\">Sophie Brady says she is happy to see a year added to convicted rapist David Hamlton\u2019s sentence\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Hamilton abused his younger cousin Sophie Brady\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/465e68d7-484d-4a17-ba74-ddbb85e430e7.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)\">David Hamilton abused his younger cousin Sophie Brady<\/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 convicted rapist has had his sentence increased in a decision welcomed by one of his victims, who said she can \u201cnow begin the long journey towards healing\u201d.<\/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)\">David Hamilton (33), of Woodtown West, Athboy, Co Meath, has had his six-and-a-half-year jail term increased by a year at the Court of Appeal last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophie Brady says she is happy to see a year added to convicted rapist David Hamlton\u2019s sentence David&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18373,45,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-191008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ali-bracken","9":"tag-an-garda-siochana","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191008","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=191008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}