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Pervert caught with 278k images and 'disturbing' child abuse material appeals sentence
Summary
In December 2023, a Court of Appeal hearing considered the appeal of Paul Boyle, a 46‑year‑old Scottish man, who had been sentenced to five‑and‑a‑half years' imprisonment for harassment and possession of child pornography. Boyle was caught by an off‑duty Garda on the Luas in December 2019 taking "up‑skirt" photographs of women and schoolgirls. A subsequent search of his Dublin home uncovered 275,800 images of women's groins, thighs and buttocks taken between June 2018 and January 2020, and a 2002 child‑pornography video described as "extremely explicit and disturbing." Boyle pleaded guilty in March 2022 to the harassment and possession charges. Judge Martin Nolan imposed a five‑year term for harassment and a three‑year term for child‑pornography, with the final two‑and‑a‑half years suspended and back‑dated to March 2021.
Who, what, where, when and why
What: Report matter: Pervert caught with 278k images and 'disturbing' child abuse material appeals sentence. Charges or matters: harassment at a location in Dublin city between November and December 2019. Procedural stage: appeal
When:
- December 2019 Incident
- December 16, 2019 Adjournment
- June 2018 Hearing Or Sentence
- January 2020 Hearing Or Sentence
- March 2022 Incident
- 28 January Incident
- July 2022 Incident
- March 2021 Other
- 2023-12-05 Publication
Case subjects
Appellant
Charges: harassment at a location in Dublin city between November and December 2019 (Admitted)
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: In July 2022, Judge Martin Nolan sentenced Boyle to five years' imprisonment for the harassment. However, Judge Nolan suspended the final two and a half years of the child pornography sentence and backdated it to when Boyle went into custody in March 2021.
Places mentioned
- Sandyford
- Sandyford View
- Dublin
- Dublin city
- Blackglen Road
- Court of Appeal
- Thursday. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court
- Dublin
- was brought to Dundrum Garda Station
- Dundrum
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