Update 2.57pm: A Norwegian man who raped his girlfriend while she slept in their Dublin flat has been jailed for 15 months today.

Earlier: The Court of Appeal in Dublin has ruled that a Norwegian man who raped his girlfriend as she slept should not have had his entire sentence suspended.

Magnus Meyer Hustveit (aged 26) was convicted last year and received a seven-year sentence with all of it suspended.

A few months after first meeting in May 2011, Magnus Meyer Hustveit moved into a Dublin city apartment with Niamh Ní Dhomhnaill.

After suspecting he was having sex with her while she slept, Niamh confronted him, and he sent her an email admitting to using her body for his own gratification.

In deciding to fully suspend a seven year sentence last July, Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy described it as an “exceptional case” and one that wouldn’t have come to light without the man’s admissions.

But today, the Court of Appeal agreed with the DPP that the sentence was “unduly lenient”.

Mr Hustveit had moved back to Norway where he was living with his new partner and her children.

Norway doesn’t extradite its citizens and Mr Justice George Birmingham praised Mr Hustveit for returning to Ireland, but decided the repeated rape of his ex-girlfriend warranted a custodial sentence.

He then jailed him for 15 months.