Vicious rapist who f led here sent back to the UK
Sex attacker with 10 convictions absconded when given probation
A VIOLENT rapist with 10 previous convictions, who fled to Ireland, has been arrested and sent back to England, where he was wanted for breaking parole.
Trevor Byrne’s criminal history is a chilling list of violent acts towards women in Dublin.
The 39-year-old – who lived in a tent in the capital city at one stage – had been in custody in Britain since last September, following his arrest for having a shotgun.
He was convicted last month and jailed for a just under a year.
However, he was released two weeks ago on probation and immediately fled to Dublin, where he was arrested after an alert was circulated, saying he had breached his strict probation conditions and was possibly on his way here. The dangerous predator has been in and out of prison since his teens. He had been living in the tent after efforts to house him in Dublin failed a number of times because he was targeted by vigilantes.
Byrne’s propensity for violence began when he was just a teen.
His first offence was in 1994 for the rape of an 18-year-old woman. The then 17-year-old struck his victim on the head with a brick and told her he would have to kill her because she would identify him. He was jailed for 15 years.
But he was released in December 2005, and just 36 hours after being freed he brutally attacked a Filipino nurse in the street and was sent back to jail for five years. He had dragged the nurse along the ground, hit her in the face and threatened to slit her throat.
His victim was walking home from Dublin’s Mater Hospital when Byrne set upon her. She was rescued by a passerby.
Just 14 hours after his release for this horrific attack in 2009, Byrne attacked a young French woman after forcing his way into her Phibsboro home. He was sentenced to eight years, with two suspended, and was released in March 2014, but appeared before court again as he broke his probation terms. He was jailed for six months after being caught with cans of cider.
Byrne was sent back behind bars at his own request in April 2015, as he told a judge he couldn’t live by the terms of his suspended sentence.
He said he was afraid of what he would do on his release and believed he was entitled to spend the suspended part of his eightyear sentence in jail.
He also made contact with the Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum, Dublin, around the same time and said he ‘might hack somebody up’.