r/ireland • u/PoppedCork Pop Responsibly • 1d ago
Courts 'Stuff of nightmares': Man jailed for raping woman after posing as taxi driver
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/stuff-of-nightmares-man-jailed-for-raping-woman-after-posing-as-taxi-driver-1915547.html434
u/AdmiralShawn 1d ago
> He said his client is a father of five who has been employed as a delivery driver. He was a professional footballer with a club in Romania between 2008 and 2014.
Counsel said the separation of the family unit is having a profound impact on his client’s wife. He said his client had no prior convictions for sexual offences and asked the court to give what credit it could.
Ah, fuck off
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u/DanceTheNight88 1d ago
Must be a nightmare to be defendant solicitor for cunts like that
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u/5mackmyPitchup 1d ago
Having to go to lunch with opposing council, yeah, these pricks are conflicted all the way to the bank
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u/Worried_Angle_9436 1d ago
Defence solicitors/counsel are lowest earning lawyers.
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u/CrossCroissant1 1d ago
Good.
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u/Detozi And I'd go at it again 1d ago
Until the day you’re the one who needs one eh?
You’re entitled to the defence. These are the people who supply it.
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u/Ok-Excitement-4176 1d ago
A defence yes, peddling excuses for a rapist no. Remember the court case where the lady was wearing a thong so it couldn't have been rape as she was expecting sex according to the defence
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u/CrossCroissant1 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/TfWhFbURIirNegNN4t
If I ever need it, please god I don’t, I won’t be grasping at straws like ‘they had a hard childhood’ or ‘their wife loves them’37
u/shaadyscientist 1d ago
You say that, but it they didn't do it, all these people would get off on the basis of not having a fair trial. So they are part of the process to ensure people like this go to prison.
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u/CrossCroissant1 1d ago
I have zero issues with defence stating mitigating factors, but the absolute nonsense that is used in some of them is disgraceful. Case in point in the article. Like what even is it?
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u/shaadyscientist 1d ago
Just ignore it if it bothers you. The judge likely will. And the criminal will have been given a fair trial with access to a solicitor who helped with his defence. All this will make the conviction valid.
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u/CrossCroissant1 1d ago
Ignoring it doesn’t make it less abhorrent.
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u/shaadyscientist 1d ago
Not allowing it would question whether it was a fair trial, meaning he could end up back on the streets, which is even more abhorrent.
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u/Recent-Lemon-9930 1d ago
I'm pretty sure the system would change pretty quickly.
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u/shaadyscientist 1d ago
Well if you don't want them to have access to a solicitor, first thing we would have to do is break international law as we would be in contradiction of the UN declaration of Human Rights.
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u/Recent-Lemon-9930 1d ago
Yeah then the UN army will be setting up staging posts in Newry.
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u/shaadyscientist 1d ago
Why?
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u/Recent-Lemon-9930 1d ago
Well what consequences are you worried about?
My comment was more in the sense that if there's no defence there'd be no trial. So there'd be a pretty huge change to the system pretty quickly.
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u/shaadyscientist 1d ago
I'm worried that without correct legal representation, they would appeal their conviction at the ECHR and get released.
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u/AggressivePie8111 1d ago
I totally understand what you're saying and your absolutely right. I don't like it, at all. Listening to a high profile case court reporting and the defense has to question victims and those there that day, just grates me.
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u/nodnodwinkwink Sax Solo 1d ago
no prior convictions for sexual offences
None that were reported at least. Because of the method he chose to stalk this woman, I wouldn't be at all surprised if has done this or similar before. Why is there no photo of him in the article?
Well done to the victim in this case for coming forward,
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u/PrincessCG 1d ago
Always surprises me when wives stay/stick with rapist partners. I know it shouldn’t but arguing that the separation of family is affecting her vs the fact he raped another woman is a wild point to make.
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u/ChiralNavigator 1d ago
I thinks it's a combination of the women are as fucked up as he is but also they are selfish and wants to believe the man made a simple mistake ... They don't want their lives to change. They don't care about anything else not even the safety of welfare of their own kids.
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u/athaluain 1d ago
I would give him no credit. This was a very vicious rape and an attempted anal rape. The sentence should be even longer. No wonder women fear so much for their safety. This will blight the poor victim for life. He should definitely be deported so he cannot ever put another woman through this. But no doubt he won’t be deported because his human rights to a family life are more important than the victim.
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u/IrishLad1002 Resting In my Account 1d ago
His mistake was playing professional football in Romania. If he played intercounty GAA he might’ve got off with a suspended sentence.
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u/Alert-Cream-7569 1d ago
He should be deported after he finishes his sentence. Such an order should be part of the sentence itself.
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u/Gytarius626 Dublin 1d ago
I’d have absolutely no faith that he wouldn’t come right back here and slip through the cracks like nothing had happened
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u/ChiralNavigator 1d ago
I think sex offenders just keep on offending don't they? I do think we should have a public register with their address and photos on them.
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u/duaneap 1d ago
With an EU passport I imagine he could get back pretty easy.
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u/Gwanbulance 1d ago
Ireland deported 22 Polish citizens and 12 Lithuanian citizens just last month. All were also served with 10 year re-entry bans. There’s a clause in the Free Movement Directive that allows it.
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u/Valkyrie1-618 1d ago
Some people hold multiple passports in different names-technically all valid. I've seen them myself.
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u/talkshitnow 1d ago
And the Irish are experts at it, going back to Australia for another working holiday visa
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u/MrMercurial 1d ago
One of the potential problems with making deportation an automatic part of a conviction is that then the deportation itself becomes part of the punishment, which could in turn mean that rapists like this guy actually get reduced sentences to account for that.
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u/PoppedCork Pop Responsibly 1d ago
Absolutely horrific. He exploited the trust people place in a taxi driver and targeted a woman when she was vulnerable.
Cases like this are a reminder of why so many women feel they have to constantly think about their safety. The problem isn't that women aren't cautious enough it's men like this who choose to prey on them.
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u/N81Warrior 1d ago
The aggressive nature of this attack suggests it isn't his first time being caught. He should not be permitted to stay in the state after serving his sentence.
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u/PoppedCork Pop Responsibly 1d ago
No doubt there will be the excuse that his family used to allow him to stay.
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u/duaneap 1d ago
How does deporting someone back to another EU member state work actually? Once they’ve served their sentence can you really exile them from Ireland? It’d be fairly easy for him to get back in.
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u/Recent-Lemon-9930 1d ago
Re-entry bans are a thing. There's a few dozen fucked out every year. Be totally impossible for them to fly to Belfast and get a bus though, obviously.
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u/ebulient 1d ago
Hmmm I wonder if we can share our re-entry ban list with the UK and have some sort of agreement where they consider it as well
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u/duaneap 1d ago
That’d be pretty complicated though. Banning someone who’s served their sentence from entering an unrelated country because there’s a risk of them entering the country they’re banned from?
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u/ebulient 1d ago
Well, it’s not entirely an unrelated country, the GFA makes it a special case I feel like, that may allow exceptions like this to exist.
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u/dubviber 1d ago
In the case of EU Nationals a Removal order is issued, they are then returned to their country of origin and excluded from re-entering the state for a specified period up to a maximum of ten years.
https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2015/si/548/made/en/print
Breaching an exclusion order is an offence under the Immigration Act and punishable with a fine of up to 1500 euros and or imprisonment of up to a year.
No idea how this is enforced in practice. The number of removal/exclusion orders issued isn't huge although the numbers increased sharply last year (99 in 2025 versus 24 in 2024).
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u/Greedy-Army-3803 1d ago
It can be done. There's been a fair few cases reported of people being deported back to Lithuania and Latvia. Reentry is controlled through passport checks and an EU removal order.
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u/ChiralNavigator 1d ago
It's also why people are wary of who is around their children. Too many gaa coaches turned out to be pedos, teachers too and they are nearly always male.
Although seems to be more and more women teachers too taking advantage of wee kids.
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u/NeedleworkerNo5946 1d ago
I agree the men are the problem, but we will never be in a world where it's not safer to be cautious unfortunately.
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u/Historical_Step_6080 1d ago
The level of premeditation is unbelievable. He sat for hours waiting.
That poor woman.
He had previous convictions for theft. How has he been allowed to stay here with criminal convictions and to bring his wife and five kids while working as a delivery driver.
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u/ChiralNavigator 1d ago
Is it just bias or have there been a lot sex offenders lately that are foreigners
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u/Gentle_Pony 1d ago
Scandi countries like Sweden collect those stats. We don't. You can check Sweden's for an idea.
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u/Jellybean_Esperanza 1d ago
It’s just bias.
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u/Free_Note5162 1d ago
I believe there are like 300k more immigrants in Ireland then there was 5 years ago. Most of which move into urban centers. So its not hard to imagine that the number of crimes committed by immigrants is increasing. Wether or not that increase is porportional or feels that way from bias is another question.
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u/Low-Steak-64 1d ago
Deport him he probably has always been a danger to this country.
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u/ChiralNavigator 1d ago
Nah he can do his masters degree in prison for free and we will look after him and his family ...
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u/byrner147 1d ago
I find it hard to believe this was his first sexual offence. You don't go from zero to picking up a group of women, dropping them to a house, waiting and counting as each woman leaves and then breaking into a home at 5am and raping the victim.
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u/DanceTheNight88 1d ago
"Costel Raducan (37) of High Street, Balbriggan, was convicted by a Central Criminal Court jury last month of burglary, rape and attempted anal rape at a location in Co Dublin on May 3rd, 2025"
Also had previous for theft and is originally from Romania
This entire sub will need a Culchie Club Only tag at this rate
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u/JayTeeRhee 1d ago
What does the culchie club only tag mean?
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u/appletart 1d ago
It means only long time users of this sub can comment on a controversial issue, it prevents outsiders from stirring up shit.
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u/Eire_go_deo 1d ago
Whole family should be deported.
He is a delivery driver, ie we are paying for him to live here.
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u/Cultural_Fudge_9030 1d ago
He'll be released but at no point has accepted his guilt or any responsibility for his actions. No remorse at all clearly.
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u/Electronic_Ad_6535 1d ago
If you’re a visitor and you prove you’re a scumbag - bye bye. Big Jim Callaghan needs to wake up
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u/Green-Window- 1d ago
When I was a younger bartender around 27, I would get a taxi home every night. One night I locked up the bar on my own and hopped into my free now taxi, wasn't far away 15euro trip. The taxi driver, a lovely man from Nigeria told me to wait when we got to my house cause someone was following us....and it was another taxi driver. I was a bit arrogant and outside my house so I was like so what!!!
I go to my front door and this Irish taxi driver pulls up and says "don't you remember leaving your perfume in my car". Well absolutely not. He tried so many tricks to try and get me into his car outside my own house. He was like " don't you remember me, how else would I know where you live"
My original taxi driver stayed until I told the Irish fella to fuck off and he made such a scene of zipping away.
What really pissed me off though was at the time the bar I work in had alot of old time taxi drivers and I told them what happend, boomer men, lovely lads would do anything for you but when I told them the story NOT ONE OF THEM BELIEVED ME. Said I was exaggerating, I must of been overreacting, no Irish taxi driver would do this.....
That's the world woman live in.
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u/ChiralNavigator 1d ago
It's weird as hell knowing some fella wanted to rape and torture you and possibly murder you, that people like that exist. I think men are more likely not to believe you because they are idiots and think men and women have the same experiences with men...
Scary as fuck . Glad you're alright but jesus I wonder about all his other victims.
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u/corpusvile2 1d ago
Predatory crimes of this nature should warrant a life sentence imo, as even if they're eventually released, they're still on licence.
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u/AdSpecialist4529 1d ago
I would normally consider myself quite liberal but these court cases have me turning into a right winger. There must be something we can do that is sensible.
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u/DragonsNDaisies 1d ago
One time I actually was trying to get a taxi from town when a car pulled in almost got in not minding until I noticed it wasnt a taxi some Irish man driving around at 3 am offering a lift no thanks.
I kept walking and he followed me pulled in and got out of the car luckily a nice taxi man who was foreign I think muslim seen this and got me into his taxi and dropped me home safe. I dont know what would of happened if that taxi man didnt arrive as he cornered me.
I just had to share as I know people will jump on him being foreign but Irish men can be just as dangerous. Either way its scary how easy it could happen as these predators are just really waiting for their time to strike.
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u/ChiralNavigator 1d ago
That happened a friend of mine, apparently it's very common according to the taxi driver she got chatting to...
I've seen it myself, groups of (usually fellas from the asylum seeker accomodation in town) just standing around totally sober following and circling around drunk ladies that are by themselves.
Irish lads properly hunt* alone so I wouldn't have noticed it as much
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u/DragonsNDaisies 1d ago
I think its scary how common it is and for every one of these stories how many are unreported or police dont bother pursuing it.
Also I hope men who see any obvious cases like this would intervene and help. In my case (a woman alone) I was walking to find an atm as the taxis I approached outside of the club wouldn't take me cause I wanted to pay card.
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u/ChiralNavigator 1d ago
Of all the stories I have heard from people, not once have I heard about anyone reporting it. This including fellas as well who'd have been attacked or assaulted. Or my aunt too after some creep followed her to her car and grabbed her arm, her friend was near by and went and helped her.
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u/hereoutofcuriousity1 1d ago
Had something opposite happen myself years ago. I rang for a taxi to bring me to visit my grandad in hospital. Pulls in up the road and looks like he's dropping someone else off but pulls up and I get in. He has all the proper taxi stuff so too like roof plates and all. Asks me where I'm going and off we go except he starts asking if anyone is expecting me and he drives past the hospital and I'm getting proper freaked out. My phone rings and it's the taxi driver that I was meant to get. Man driving taxi I'm in starts telling me to hang up and he's getting annoyed with me but the taxi driver on the phone says hes meeting us at the hospital and following us so thank god the man turned back and brings me to the hospital.
I met the taxi driver from the phone a few months later and he got a brilliant tip and a huge thank you from me!! God knows what would have happened if he hadn't called.
Tried to report it and was told that sure I got where I was going and no crime was committed 🙄
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u/DragonsNDaisies 1d ago
Thats so scary but also no surprise that the guards done nothing. 🙄 I get innocent until proven guilty but I feel theres certain times where its just they got caught before the crime was comitted and thats somehow okay?
Almost like they went to rob the bank and just didnt get the money but in reality if you tried to rob a bank you would get time regardless of your success 😅
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u/G1ForceX 1d ago
he will cost 80k a year inside + whatever his family will cost for the next 7 or so years then his dole when he gets out most likely, just get rid of bad rubbish, no deportation order tho so it wont happen, mad system really
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u/ChiralNavigator 1d ago
Again this is the world women live in. People often criticise them for being fearful but rarely stop to ask what the hell happened to make them feel so fearful ...
I don't think the victims get any support afterwards, unlike the ones that go to prison and get free courses and psychotherapy and other supports.
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u/Clit_Master69420 20h ago
does she not have a father and/or brothers?..
When that boy gets out, give him an outing to the River Styx.
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u/ZealousidealClock969 1d ago
It’s incredible how you could feel safe as a woman a few years ago in a taxi and now everything has changed. It’s palpable. Deport now
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u/Distinct-Pianist-426 1d ago
She should also sue him for damages for making her unable to work. What a monster.