African national convicted of infecting two women with HIV

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An African national was convicted of causing serious harm by infecting two former partners with HIV at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 12 July 2018. The man cannot be named because doing so could identify the complainants.

A jury returned unanimous guilty verdicts on both charges after an eleven-day trial. Judge Martin Nolan refused bail and remanded him in custody for a sentence hearing on 26 July 2018; the report said the maximum penalty was life imprisonment.