2026-05-11
Seven years for sex offender who repeatedly recorded himself assaulting sleeping woman
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: He took into account that Dignam had a conviction for the possession of child abuse sexual material and had been given a one-year suspended sentence for that offence. Mr Justice Burns imposed a sentence of eight years in prison.; He said that the trial dates were adjourned on a number of occasions as a result of both the prosecution and the defence variously "trying to dig more into where the videos came from", as gardai never had possession of the original phone.