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22/02/2013
Gang Rapist To Be Freed From Jail
Notorious gang rapist, Thomas O’Niell, will be freed from prison this weekend upon completion of a jail term for his latest crime.
24-year-old O'Neill was sentenced to 18 months for threatening to burn the home of the sister of Euromillions winner Dolores McNamara.
O'Neill, with an address at 94 The Meadows, Murroe, Co Limerick, threatened Jennifer McCarthy and said that he would burn her mother, Deirdre O'Donovan, out of her home on July 25, 2011.
He was sentenced in Limerick Circuit Criminal Court last month but had been locked up since January 12, 2012.
O'Neill, who has 36 previous convictions dating back to when he was 13, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after he led a five-man gang rape of a woman in Cratloe Woods, Co Clare, in 2004.
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24-year-old O'Neill was sentenced to 18 months for threatening to burn the home of the sister of Euromillions winner Dolores McNamara.
O'Neill, with an address at 94 The Meadows, Murroe, Co Limerick, threatened Jennifer McCarthy and said that he would burn her mother, Deirdre O'Donovan, out of her home on July 25, 2011.
He was sentenced in Limerick Circuit Criminal Court last month but had been locked up since January 12, 2012.
O'Neill, who has 36 previous convictions dating back to when he was 13, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after he led a five-man gang rape of a woman in Cratloe Woods, Co Clare, in 2004.
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