Sentencing delaySentence on a Galway man for unlawful carnal knowledge of his then 15-year-old sister-in-law has been further adjourned pending the outcome of the State's appeal to the Supreme Court in the Mr A case.
The now 33-year-old man was found guilty on day two of his trial at the Central Criminal Court in November last by direction of Mr Justice Iarfhlaith O'Neill of having unlawful carnal knowledge of the woman in 1995.
He cannot be identified in the media by order of Mr Justice O'Neill. Paul Coffey SC, for the DPP, asked Mr Justice O'Neill to further adjourn sentence in this case pending the outcome of the Mr A appeal.
The man had been due for sentence last January but it was adjourned then on the application of Isobel Kennedy SC, defending. Ms Kennedy told Mr Justice O'Neill in January that a judgment on the constitutionality of the legislation dealing with unlawful carnal knowledge was pending in the Supreme Court which itself in a previous ruling had raised this issue and was to hear submissions.
The man was found not guilty by the jury last November on two charges of raping the woman.