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04/12/2012
12 Years For Double Rapist
A 34-year-old man, who drugged and raped two women after luring them to his home in Dublin, has been jailed for 12 years for.
Kapil Garg, a computer specialist originally from India but living in Whitefriar Place in Dublin 8, had pleaded not guilty but a jury found him guilty of the offences, which took place in his rented room in July 2011.
Mr Justice Barry White told him that he could have spared his victims a further ordeal if he had not waited until the eve of sentencing to accept responsibility for his crimes.
The trial heard that Garg met two intoxicated women outside a Dublin nightclub around 3am on 2 July 2011.
He lured them back to his rented room at Whitefriar Place by promising them ecstasy, but instead he drugged and raped them.
Garg, who has a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Southern California and has worked in the US, the UK, Australia and Germany, gave each woman half a sedative pill before attacking them.
The court went on to hear how one of the victims woke up and tried to wake her friend as Garg raped her. However, she fell back asleep only to wake again while she was being raped.
It is known that Garg had a previous conviction for an attack on a woman in the US, a crime he spent time in Los Angeles County Jail for.
Sentencing Garg Justice White said he could not ignore the bad character and previous conviction of the accused.
Garg was sentenced to 12 year with the last three suspended.
Justice White also directed that €20,000, which had been offered to but rejected by the victims, be returned to Garg's parents.
(H/GK)
Kapil Garg, a computer specialist originally from India but living in Whitefriar Place in Dublin 8, had pleaded not guilty but a jury found him guilty of the offences, which took place in his rented room in July 2011.
Mr Justice Barry White told him that he could have spared his victims a further ordeal if he had not waited until the eve of sentencing to accept responsibility for his crimes.
The trial heard that Garg met two intoxicated women outside a Dublin nightclub around 3am on 2 July 2011.
He lured them back to his rented room at Whitefriar Place by promising them ecstasy, but instead he drugged and raped them.
Garg, who has a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Southern California and has worked in the US, the UK, Australia and Germany, gave each woman half a sedative pill before attacking them.
The court went on to hear how one of the victims woke up and tried to wake her friend as Garg raped her. However, she fell back asleep only to wake again while she was being raped.
It is known that Garg had a previous conviction for an attack on a woman in the US, a crime he spent time in Los Angeles County Jail for.
Sentencing Garg Justice White said he could not ignore the bad character and previous conviction of the accused.
Garg was sentenced to 12 year with the last three suspended.
Justice White also directed that €20,000, which had been offered to but rejected by the victims, be returned to Garg's parents.
(H/GK)
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