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flag Ireland's Court of Appeal upholds Michael Murray’s 35-year sentence for 2010 rape, abduction, and related crimes.

flag Ireland’s Court of Appeal has upheld a 35-year prison sentence for Michael Murray, 55, after he was convicted of multiple serious offenses linked to a 2010 rape and abduction. flag The court affirmed that the combined sentences—nine years for threatening a prosecutor, seven for harassing his victim via false online ads, and additional time for other offenses—were justified due to the extreme gravity of the crimes, with no mitigating factors. flag Murray, who has 34 prior convictions dating to 1987, including armed robbery and burglary, received the sentences consecutively, backdated to the end of his original 19-year term. flag The appeal was rejected, with the court finding the sentencing judge properly applied the totality principle and that the punishment was proportionate to the persistent and severe nature of his criminal conduct.

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