Victim speaks after coercive control rapist who targeted women through dating sites gets 17 years

Dean Ward, formerly of County Wexford, remains imprisoned following his conviction for a sustained campaign of violence and sexual abuse against a woman in Killybegs, County Donegal. Sentenced to seventeen years imprisonment in July 2022, Ward was found guilty of twelve offences committed over a six-week period between June and July 2019, including three counts of rape, four assaults, false imprisonment, threats to…