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Six years for string of violent assaults, including sex attack
Summary
Kevin Joyce, aged 25, of Skerries, Co Dublin, was sentenced by Judge Melanie Greally at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to eight years' imprisonment, with the final two years suspended. The sentence covers six unprovoked violent offences committed between May 2017 and January 2021, including a sustained sexual assault. Joyce pleaded guilty to attacks on friends and strangers, such as striking a friend in May 2017, punching Ronan Murphy in August 2017, assaulting three young people while on bail, and attacking a woman in a public park. He also punched a man on Grafton Street in March 2020, breaking the man's jaw, and used a bottle to knock a friend unconscious in January 2021. The judge noted Joyce's remorse, his placement on the Sex Offenders' Register, and ordered him to attend programmes for sexual offending and addiction, and to engage with probation services for two years upon release. The sentence was back‑dated to January 2021.
Who, what, where, when and why
What: Report matter: Six years for string of violent assaults, including sex attack. Charges or matters: offences on six different bills committed between May 2017 and January 2021, when he was taken into custody. Procedural stage: sentence
When:
- May 2017 Incident
- January 2021 Hearing Or Sentence
- August 2017 Incident
- March 1, 2020 Incident
- January 12, 2021 Incident
- January 14, 2021 Other
- 2022-05-05 Publication
Case subjects
Defendant
Charges: offences on six different bills committed between May 2017 and January 2021, when he was taken into custody (Admitted)
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Judge Greally said her sentence reflected the multiplicity and seriousness of the offences and the fact that many of them were committed while Joyce was on bail.
Places mentioned
- Dublin
- Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
- Grafton Street
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