Playwright who raped woman during ‘barbaric’ attack is thrown out of prison

Our images show how prison staff allowed the driver of a Hyundai with the registration number 07 to reverse past the main gate to pick up the sex offender, who was then able to sneak into the vehicle through a back door and avoid being photographed.

According to sources, the pervert, who is officially homeless, has returned to his hometown of Drogheda.

The beast with the long hair converted to Islam during his prison sentence.

It is believed that he performs under the name Hasan Selim.

In April 2006, Condra was sentenced to 16 years in prison for raping a woman in his apartment after a drug party.

His victim recounted how she met Condra at a local pub where she was trying to organize “a moon event.”

She and several others were invited to Condra’s apartment, where he pulled out “a can of weed” and told them all to “help themselves.”

“Everyone there was smoking cannabis,” she said. The woman smoked a few “joints” with the others and they drank Condra’s “medieval mead.”

The victim’s ordeal began when she prepared to leave Condra’s apartment and go home at around 2 a.m.

She bent down to get her bag when Condra grabbed her, dragged her by her hair into his bedroom, beat her, threw her on the bed and said he was going to rape her.

He then began to tear her clothes off, and she described how Condra then repeatedly raped her, slapped her in the face and called her a “whore” and a “slut.”

She said she screamed and begged him to stop.

She said she tried to call the Gardai on her mobile phone when Condra was out of the bedroom, but he came back and took the phone away from her when she told him she was trying to call a taxi.

He told her she would “pay for this” and kill her. He then went into the kitchen where he got a long knife and held it to her throat. He cut her with it and she also cut her hand when she tried to push the knife away.

“Blood was splattering everywhere,” she said. Every time she asked him to stop, he hit her.

She claimed the attack lasted until about 7 a.m.

Garda Nigel McInaw said the woman appeared to have injuries and bruising consistent with an attack when she arrived at the station after 7.30am. She appeared unaware of the extent of her injuries.

He called an ambulance to take her to Lourdes Hospital, from where she was transferred to the Rotunda Rape Treatment Centre.

Condra initially pleaded not guilty to four counts: rape, false imprisonment, aggravated sexual assault and assault, but changed his plea to guilty to aggravated sexual assault and assault on the sixth day of the eleven-day trial.

The jury found him guilty unanimously on the charge of false imprisonment and guilty on the charge of rape by a majority of 11 to 1.

Judge Henry Abbott confirmed that Condra was a registered sex offender.

He said there had been a number of rapes at the upper end of the scale, in which “a lot of brutal violence was used and death threats were constantly involved”.

Condra therefore deserved “a sentence just below the maximum penalty.” He imposed 16 years’ imprisonment for rape, eight years for aggravated sexual assault and three years each for assault and deprivation of liberty, all to be served concurrently.

Condra was formerly a member of the Irish Army.

Det Gda Seamus Nolan said at Condra’s sentencing that in his 22 years in the police force he had never witnessed such a horrific sexual assault.

Garda McInaw said Condra developed an addiction to alcohol and drugs, which led him to “fall into bad company” after leaving the army.

In November 1996, he broke into the home of 86-year-old Margaret McDonnell from Dundalk.

Four months later, he was also involved in an armed robbery at the Readypenny Inn pub, during which a woman was kidnapped.

Det Nolan said Condra was sentenced to six years in prison for these offences in 1998.

While incarcerated in Mountjoy Prison, he wrote and produced an acclaimed play.

The remainder of his sentence was suspended in 2000 and he moved back to Drogheda, where he became involved with the Droichead Arts Centre.

Defense attorney Anthony Sammon said Condra regretted his actions.