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'True predator' who groomed and abused 14 children is jailed
Summary
In a Central Criminal Court hearing, a 58‑year‑old man was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for sexual assaults on 14 teenage girls between May 1994 and February 2001. He pleaded guilty in 2002 to ten of the assaults and received a nine‑year sentence with two years suspended. He denied three further assaults, but a jury convicted him of 30 counts involving four additional girls. The court imposed consecutive sentences: two years for the first victim, two‑and‑a‑half years for the second, two years for the third, and six months for the fourth, totaling seven years. The judge described him as a "true predator" who groomed victims with money, cigarettes and jewellery, and who used his flat as a refuge to facilitate abuse. The man had been convicted of burglary in Ireland and the UK and had been in custody since March 2018. No further charges were brought for his time in the UK.
Who, what, where, when and why
What: Report matter: 'True predator' who groomed and abused 14 children is jailed. Procedural stage: sentence. Findings: Convicted
When:
- May 1994 Incident
- February 2001 Incident
- March 2018 Incident
- May 2000 Incident
- February 1996 Incident
- February 2000 Incident
- 2020-06-11 Publication
Case subjects
Convicted Person
Plea: Guilty
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; A serial sexual abuser and "true predator" who groomed and abused teenage girls in his flat has been jailed for seven years. Ms Justice Burns sentenced the man to two years imprisonment for the offences against the first woman, two-and-a-half years imprisonment for offences against the second woman, two years imprisonment for offences against the third woman and six months imprisonment for the offence against the fourth woman.
Places mentioned
- The Central Criminal Court
- Central Criminal Court
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