Days after being released at the end of nine years in jail for rape, a 32-year-old man breached a court order and approached the victim on the street, it was alleged today as a warrant was issued for his arrest.<\/p>\n
Detective Sergeant Katrine Tansley testified at the Central Criminal Court in Cork today that Keith Ahern was released from prison on January 29 with the final year of a ten-year sentence suspended on conditions that required him to have no contact with the victim.<\/p>\n
The detective said the victim alleged that on February 10 this year, Keith Ahern approached the young woman on a street in Cork city and that there was CCTV to support the allegation.<\/p>\n
Keith Ahern was living at Sawmill Lane, Sawmill Street in Cork at the time of the rape in Cork City on a night in June 2013.<\/p>\n
While he did not physically rape the woman himself he was part of a joint enterprise by holding her down while his friend raped her. He pleaded not guilty to rape but a jury found him guilty.<\/p>\n
Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy gave him a 10-year sentence in 2017, with the final year suspended.<\/p>\n
The second man involved in the rape pleaded guilty to the offence but died in prison before sentencing.<\/p>\n
The application for the bench warrant for Keith Ahern is to facilitate the state\u2019s further application to have the suspended one-year portion of the sentence activated because of the alleged breach of conditions requiring him to have no contact with the victim.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The defendant will have to be present in court for that to be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Days after being released at the end of nine years in jail for rape, a 32-year-old man breached…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2246,79,54,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-397127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-cork-court","9":"tag-cork-news","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397127","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=397127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}