29-year-old Italian man jailed for sexual assault

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A 29-year-old Italian man was jailed for two and a half years for sexual assault at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 13 January 2020.

He pleaded guilty to assaulting his flatmate while she was sleeping on a couch at their flat in Dublin city on 28 April 2018. The man cannot be named to protect the victim’s identity. Judge Martin Nolan said a jail sentence was necessary after describing the behaviour as reprehensible.