2023-03-30
Violent sex attacker came to capital with plan to abduct woman
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Maurice Fitzgerald (29) of Abbeyview in Buttevant has been jailed for eight and a half years after he pleaded guilty to falsely imprisoning and assaulting the woman, causing harm last August 27, at Meeting House Lane, off Mary's Abbey. He was sentenced to four years in prison in July 2016 for an incident in Kerry where he befriended a woman and used duct tape to incapacitate her.