Student, 25, is jailed for raping woman

A COLLEGE student who raped a woman in a laneway while walking her home from the pub has been jailed for five years.

- BY ISABEL HAYES

Michael Molloy, 25, of Creagh Demesne, Gorey, Co Wexford, raped and sexually assaulted the then 20-year-old woman in the early hours of November 1, 2021. He was aged 22 at the time.

Molloy was found guilty by unanimous jury verdicts of one count of rape, one count of oral rape and one count of sexual assault of the woman following a Central Criminal Court trial in Waterford in February.