An Algerian asylum-seeker has been jailed for ten years at the Central Criminal Court for the rape and oral rape of a woman in Dublin.
Sid Ahmed Benflici (28), with a previous address in Bray, Co Wicklow, admitted two charges of raping and of oral rape the woman on April 16th, 2000 on Broadstone Avenue, Phibsboro.
Mr Justice Paul Carney suspended the final 18 months of the sentence due to Benflici's early guilty plea which freed up a trial slot in what he called the "backlogged" court list.
Benflici is currently serving a six years sentence imposed by Mr Justice Robert Barr on July 31st, 2001 for kidnapping and orally raping a Co Carlow teenage student.
"If you were an Irish man, or resident here, you would have been jailed for ten years", Mr Justice Barr told him then.
Benflici was convicted by a jury in May 2001 of false imprisonment, oral rape and aggravated sexual assault of a then 20-year-old woman on April 18th, 2000 at Richmond Hill, Rathmines. The court also heard Benflici has a previous conviction for a common assault on a woman in October 2000 after he posed as a hackney driver to pick her up in Dublin city centre.
Mr Justice Carney said he was treating Benflici as a serial rapist as opposed to a "single" rapist as he was before Mr Justice Barr. He said he wouldn't direct post-release supervision so that it wouldn't get in the way of any possible deportation move by the authorities.
The woman told the court she went home to her family in England after this attack and now finds it hard to trust people, particularly men and foreigners.