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Four-year sentence for Polish man who sexually assaulted woman in street attack
Summary
In a 2015 Central Criminal Court hearing, Mieczyslaw Sudol, a 42‑year‑old Polish tiler, received a four‑year prison sentence with the final two years suspended for sexually assaulting a woman on a street in County Kerry. The victim, who was on the phone with a friend, was followed by Sudol after she left a night out. He snatched her phone, grabbed her throat, pulled down her dress and sexually assaulted her before fleeing with her phone. Sudol pleaded guilty on 5 May 2008, had no prior convictions, and was arrested in 2008 for an unrelated incident. DNA recovered from the victim's fingernails linked him to the crime. The judge, considering Sudol's early guilty plea, clean record and cooperation, imposed the sentence back‑dated to his June 2014 custody entry.
Who, what, where, when and why
What: Report matter: Four-year sentence for Polish man who sexually assaulted woman in street attack. Charges or matters: sexually assaulting the woman and stealing her phone in the county on May 5, 2008. Procedural stage: sentence
When:
- May 5, 2008 Incident
- June 2014 Other
- 2015-06-15 Publication
Why: "After the attack I had to move from the house I was living in because I couldn't face walking down that road again. CNI source report
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Defendant
Charges: sexually assaulting the woman and stealing her phone in the county on May 5, 2008 (Admitted)
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: A Polish man who sexually assaulted a woman in a street attack a few months after he arrived Ireland has received a four year sentence with the final two suspended. He took into consideration Sudol's early guilty plea, previous clean record and co-operation and imposed a four year sentence, backdated to when Sudol entered custody on the matter in June 2014.
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