Child rapist to appeal 20-year sentence

A man convicted of serially abusing seven siblings over nearly two decades has been granted permission to appeal his 20-year prison sentence at the Court of Appeal. The 53-year-old, originally sentenced in March 2017 at the Central Criminal Court following guilty pleas, had admitted to 52 sample charges of indecent assault and sexual assault in December 2016. The offences, which spanned from 1982 to 1999, involved…