Convicted rapist threatened to kill three female Sunday World journalists

A convicted rapist who threatened to kill three female Sunday World journalists will be sentenced later this year.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that Mark McAnaw (52), previously of Letterkenny, Co Donegal, pleaded guilty to the harassment of Nicola Tallant, Amanda Brunker and Deirdre Reynolds on various dates in August 2023.

He has numerous previous convictions, which include a conviction of raping a foreign student in Donegal in October 2010.

He was convicted by a jury in 2012 of orally raping and sexually assaulting the student. He was sentenced to nine years in prison for this offence.

McAnaw also has a 1989 conviction for kidnapping and convictions for assaults causing actual bodily harm from a Derry court in 2011.

He also attacked a woman in her home days after they had gone on a date together in April 2018. In this incident, he was armed with a large kitchen knife when he forced his way into a woman’s home.

McAnaw received an eight-year, four-month sentence for this…

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