A convicted armed robber who raped his partner's teenage daughter has been sentenced to life in prison.
37-year-old Christopher Griffin of Ridgewood Green in Swords was found guilty on 11 counts of rape and sexual abuse between 1993 and 2001.
The victim was eight-years-old when the abuse began.
At the Central Criminal Court in Cloverhill this morning Mr Justice Paul Carney said that Griffin had a horrendous list of previous convictions.
He added that sentences of up to nine years in prison seemed to have had no affect on him and said that the case was one of the utmost gravity.
Mr Justice Carney said that the Court of Criminal Appeal had started to uphold discretionary life sentences and therefore he was sentencing him to life.
The court also heard this morning details of an ongoing feud between two families arising from the victim's complaint to the gardaí.
One family was aligned to the victim and the other family was aligned to Griffin.
It heard details of a number of tit-for-tat shootings and grenade attacks.
Griffin's trial had also been told that two murders were connected to the case.
They were the murders of Gerard Byrne and Stephen Leddin in December of last year in north inner city Dublin.
