A 72-year-old man has appeared in court in Belfast charged with human trafficking and rape.<\/p>\n
Oliver MacCormack, with an address at Maghaberry Prison outside Lisburn, faces a total of 14 charges involving three alleged victims.<\/p>\n
They include an offence of trafficking a woman on dates between January 2021 and May 2022 with a view to her exploitation.<\/p>\n
He is also charged with rape, administering a substance with a sexual intent, and a number of charges of controlling prostitution and supplying a Class A drug, heroin.<\/p>\n
He faces further charges of intimidation of a witness and paying for sexual services.<\/p>\n
The offences cover a period between 2016 and 2022.<\/p>\n
The accused appeared from custody by video link.<\/p>\n
He confirmed that he understood the charges.<\/p>\n
A PSNI detective constable told Belfast Magistrates’ Court at sitting at Laganside that he believed he could connect MacCormack to the charges.<\/p>\n
The accused was remanded and will appear again remotely on 5 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 72-year-old man has appeared in court in Belfast charged with human trafficking and rape. Oliver MacCormack, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-234196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234196","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=234196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}