Dublin: Taxi driver to serve 30 years for multiple rapes

Shorten had claimed the sexual activity had been consensual, but a jury found him guilty by unanimous verdict.

In a victim impact statement, one of the young women said she had done what every girl was told was safe – getting a taxi home – but it turned out to be “someone’s worst nightmare”.

She said she was constantly in fear that what happened to her that night would happen again.

The other young woman said what had happened to her was shocking and made worse by the fact that Shorten had raped another girl too.

The court heard Shorten has seven children. He had been a factory worker and a milkman before becoming a taxi driver.

His defence counsel said the convictions had resulted in the loss of his marriage and his relationships with his elderly parents and children.