81-year-old man has sentence cut for sexual assault

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The unnamed 81-year-old man had his seven-year sentence for indecent and sexual assault cut to five-and-a-half years by the Court of Appeal on 3 October 2018. He had pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to six sample counts involving abuse of his daughter and granddaughter.

The original sentence was imposed at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in 2015. The man cannot be named because doing so could identify his victims.