Dileesh Soman loses sexual assault sentence appeal

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Dileesh Soman lost his sexual assault sentence appeal at the Court of Appeal on 18 February 2016 after receiving four years, with the final 12 months suspended, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court. The offence occurred at a Cork City apartment on 11 November 2013, after Soman responded to a Daft.ie room advertisement. He had pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the woman. The Court of Appeal held that imprisonment was unlikely to be more difficult for him because he was settled in Ireland and had some command of English. The appeal was dismissed.