Christopher Twohig loses appeal over sexual assaults

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Christopher Twohig lost his appeal against a four-year sentence, with one year suspended, for sexual assaults at the Court of Appeal on 14 May 2018.

The assaults occurred at separate house parties in Cork in 2011 and 2014, involving two sleeping teenage girls. Twohig had pleaded guilty, and the court held that the three-year custodial term was not excessive before dismissing his appeal.

He was sentenced at Cork Circuit Criminal Court on 23 June 2017. The Court of Appeal said the sentence was arguably lenient and found no error in principle.