A Norwegian man who repeatedly raped his girlfriend while she slept in their Dublin flat between 2011 and 2012 has been jailed for 15 months.
Earlier, the Court of Appeal set aside the fully suspended sentence previously handed down to Magnus Meyer Hustveit.
A few months after first meeting in May 2011, Magnus Meyer Hustveit moved into a Dublin city apartment with Niamh Ní Dhomhnaill.
After suspecting he was having sex with her while she slept, Niamh confronted him, and he sent her an email admitting to using her body for his own gratification.
In deciding to fully suspend a seven year sentence last July, Mr. Justice Patrick McCarthy described it as an “exceptional case” and one that wouldn’t have come to light without his admissions.
But today, the Court of Appeal agreed it was “unduly lenient”.
Mr. Hustveit had moved back to Norway where he was living with his new partner and her children.
Norway doesnÂ’'t extradite its citizens and Mr. Justice George Birmingham praised Mr. Hustveit for returning to Ireland, but decided the repeated rape of his ex-girlfriend warranted a custodial sentence.
He then jailed him for 15 months.
Our Courts Correspondent Frank Greaney reports:
