Courts / Dublin / Report
Pervert rumbled by off-duty garda had over 500k images and 'disturbing' child abuse material
Summary
Paul Boyle, 45, was arrested after an off‑duty Garda spotted him taking intimate photographs of a Luas passenger. A search of his phone revealed 40,000 images of women and girls, including up‑skirt shots of schoolgirls. A subsequent warrant uncovered over half a million images on a flash drive, with 275,800 depicting women's groins and buttocks, taken between June 2018 and January 2020. The same drive also contained a disturbing child‑pornography video showing an eight‑year‑old child bound and raped, a material first reported to Irish authorities in 2002. Boyle had prior convictions in Scotland. He pleaded guilty to harassment and possession of child pornography. The court sentenced him to three years for harassment and five years for possession, suspending the final two and a half years, and imposed two years of post‑release supervision and a ban on contact with victims.
Who, what, where, when and why
What: Report matter: Pervert rumbled by off-duty garda had over 500k images and 'disturbing' child abuse material. Charges or matters: harassment at a place in Dublin city between November and December 2019. Procedural stage: sentence
When:
- December 16, 2019 Hearing Or Sentence
- June 2018 Hearing Or Sentence
- January 2020 Hearing Or Sentence
- December 2019 Incident
- January 28, 2020 Incident
- March 2021 Incident
- 2022-07-08 Publication
Case subjects
Convicted Person
Charges: harassment at a place in Dublin city between November and December 2019 (Admitted)
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Paul Boyle (45), who photographed and recorded young children and women "on an industrial scale", was today jailed for five and a half years for harassment and possession of the child abuse material. 40,000 intimate images of women and girls including their legs, groins and buttocks, along with "up-skirt" photos of school girls, were found on Paul Boyle's mobile phone when an off-duty garda spotted him acting suspiciously on a Luas carriage. He sentenced Boyle to three years imprisonment for the harassment.
Places mentioned
- Sandyford
- Sandyford View
- Dublin
- Dublin city
- Blackglen Road
- Dublin
- Dublin Criminal Circuit Court
- was brought to Dundrum Garda Station
- Dundrum
Topics
Related court reports
- Man charged with having 56k child abuse images and videos remanded on bail
- Ex-Dáil hopeful's allegations against former employer 'complete fantasy', WRC told
- Mater must pay €10k to worker who said he was wrongly accused of abusing patient
- 'I think we know I won't be getting bail' - Daniel Kinahan charged with directing criminal organisation
- Letting agent who claimed alleged domestic violence victim abandoned tenancy by fleeing to refuge must pay €14.7k
- 77-year-old with 470 convictions told Luas staff to 'f**k off'
If a fact, identity, locality or legal outcome needs review, email the newsroom with this report's details prefilled.
Email a correction request