It’s a fact that rape is rape, even when it’s your own wife. A man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, found that out this week as he was found guilty in a court in Londonderry of raping his wife. The couple are going through divorce, and his wife alleged that he raped her and committed a series of domestic assaults on her in a two year spell between 2006 and 2008.

The twenty-eight-year-old man has been ordered to surrender his passport and has been released on bail. He will be sentenced just before Easter.

The couple were getting divorced at the time, but it seems the man didn’t like the idea of not sleeping with his wife, even though they were in the middle of a divorce.

Sadly for him, that’s considered rape.

Clive Bellmore