Case-subject index
This page indexes source-named court-report mentions. Legal stage and outcome are shown separately for each report.
2024-12-19
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Imposing sentence in December 2023, Judge Orla Crowe said the victim "opened her home and heart" to Mountassir. Counsel submitted that the sentence imposed in this case represented an error in principle and was a substantial departure from the appropriate sentence.
2024-10-25
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Other factors included that the assault took place within the context of an intimate relationship and the fact that Mountassir was wanted in another jurisdiction for another serious offence – arson – for which a significant penalty of three years and one months' imprisonment had been imposed. Miceál O'Connor BL, representing Mountassir, said the judge had properly considered all the factors and circumstances of the case and had imposed the appropriate sentence. "In my submission Judge Crowe got this right," he said, adding she had dealt with the matter "impeccably".
2023-12-21
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: She sentenced him to three years imprisonment, backdating the sentence to when he went into custody on November 13, 2022. The court heard Mountassir was sentenced previously to three years and one month in Germany for arson, but was released before the sentence was re-imposed.; He was also remanded for part of his sentence to a psychiatric hospital, the court heard.
2023-11-22
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: The court heard Mountassir was sentenced previously to three years and one month in Germany for arson, but was released and then the sentence was re-imposed.; He was also remanded for part of his sentence to a psychiatric hospital, the court heard.