Ralph Carr, entertainment industry and AFL figure, sentenced to six years for ‘predatory’ rape of ex-staffer

Melbourne talent manager was convicted of two counts of rape and one count of sexual assault over 2023 attack Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Entertainment and AFL agent Ralph Carr has been sentenced to six years in prison for the rape and sexual assault of a former employee. Carr, 66, was convicted of two counts of rape and one count of sexual assault after a trial in the county court of Victoria last month. On Tuesday, Judge Frank Gucciardo sentenced Carr to six years in prison, with a minimum term of four years. Carr had pleaded not guilty to the offences, which were committed against the former employee in March 2023. He appeared in court via videolink for his sentencing, and has foreshadowed an appeal against his conviction. Carr also sought a stay on his sentence, an application which Gucciardo declined on Tuesday. Gucciardo said that Carr was three decades older than his victim, and had raped her in the context of her being someone who had worked for him and was confiding in him as she felt overwhelmed while drunk and affected by cocaine. As such, his offending involved a serious breach of tru