Runaway Weymouth Rapist Sentenced Up to 40 Years in Prison

A Mass Most Wanted suspect who is responsible for committing a rape in Weymouth in 1978, was sentenced Thursday to 36-40 years in prison.

Gary Irving, who is in his 50’s, had been a fugitive from justice for 34 years following his conviction on rape and kidnapping charges in Norfolk Superior Court in June of 1979. Irving was found and arrested at his home in Gorham, Maine in March. He was living with his wife and children when he was arrested.

Norfolk Superior Court Judge Kenneth J. Fishman sentenced Irving to 18 to 20 years on one rape, with 18 to 20 years on and after a second rape with a 7 to 10 year concurrent sentence on the kidnapping, with 20 years’ probation on the other counts, according to the Norfolk District Attorney's office.

“Today provides, finally, some answer to the survivors of these crimes,” District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey said in a written statement. “This predator is finally going to prison for these attacks. To those women, I am personally sorry that you have waited so long for justice.”

Irving was convicted of three separate rapes that took place in July of 1978 in Cohasset, Weymouth, and Holbrook. In one of them, he knocked the victim off of her bike and raped her repeatedly, according to WATD.

“To the women who testified in 1979 and who are watching today, it is my hope that this brings some measure of relief,” Morrissey said.