Violent attacker said it was 'in his mind' to rape victim (85)

A man from Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan, is the subject of a Director of Public Prosecutions appeal against sentence at the Court of Appeal. Shane Smith, aged 32, had pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting an elderly woman during a break-in at her home on 6 April 2018, and to falsely imprisoning her. He also admitted assaulting a man with a shovel and knife on 23 November 2018. At Cavan Circuit Criminal Court in…