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| Mobile home rapist to be released | Mobile home rapist to be released |
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| A man who raped a 91-year-old woman and who police believe still poses a serious risk to the public, is to be released from prison within weeks. | A man who raped a 91-year-old woman and who police believe still poses a serious risk to the public, is to be released from prison within weeks. |
| Eamon Foley from Castlederg has served half of a 16 year sentence for raping Mary-Anne McLaughlin at her isolated mobile home in January 1999. | Eamon Foley from Castlederg has served half of a 16 year sentence for raping Mary-Anne McLaughlin at her isolated mobile home in January 1999. |
| The frail pensioner died a month after the attack. | The frail pensioner died a month after the attack. |
| Her niece, Jean McCafferty, said the justice won for her aunt in court has been undermined. | Her niece, Jean McCafferty, said the justice won for her aunt in court has been undermined. |
| "My aunt had been brutally raped and had died within four weeks of being brutally raped, but we felt justice had been done that he had got the maximum sentence of 16 years," she said. | "My aunt had been brutally raped and had died within four weeks of being brutally raped, but we felt justice had been done that he had got the maximum sentence of 16 years," she said. |
| "Now we read in the papers and get phone calls from the media to say that he is getting out - that's not justice for my aunt, that's not justice for us as a family." | "Now we read in the papers and get phone calls from the media to say that he is getting out - that's not justice for my aunt, that's not justice for us as a family." |
| Denied rape | Denied rape |
| While in jail, the 47-year-old has refused to take any sex offenders courses and an assessment panel termed him a high risk offender who presents a danger to any female - child or adult. | |
| Police have been granted an interim order which means that when he is released he can only live at an approved address, can only use public transport and can have no access to children or vulnerable adults. | Police have been granted an interim order which means that when he is released he can only live at an approved address, can only use public transport and can have no access to children or vulnerable adults. |
| The order is to be renewed in December. | The order is to be renewed in December. |
| The County Tyrone man lost an appeal against his 16 year sentence at the Court of Appeal in Belfast in 2005. | The County Tyrone man lost an appeal against his 16 year sentence at the Court of Appeal in Belfast in 2005. |
| Foley, from Dreenan Road, claimed almost everyone involved in his trial in 2001 had conspired to secure his conviction. | Foley, from Dreenan Road, claimed almost everyone involved in his trial in 2001 had conspired to secure his conviction. |
| He has always denied raping Ms McLaughlin at her isolated mobile home in Castlederg. | |
| Foley was arrested after police took DNA samples from about 600 men in the Castlederg area and it was forensic evidence which led to his conviction. | |
| At his trial in 2001, a forensic expert said the odds against the DNA belonging to anyone else were a billion to one. | At his trial in 2001, a forensic expert said the odds against the DNA belonging to anyone else were a billion to one. |