Dublin man convicted of assaulting younger brother

This report is a localnews.ie summary based on public court reporting and records; sources are listed below.

The unnamed Dublin man was convicted of assault causing harm at the Central Criminal Court on 16 April 2021, after a jury returned guilty verdicts on seven counts.

The man could not be named to protect his younger brother’s anonymity. The charges concerned assaults at the family home in Dublin between 28 March 2001 and 27 March 2006.

The jury also convicted him of two sample counts of oral rape, while returning not guilty verdicts on eight other sample counts and a charge of producing an article to unlawfully intimidate.

He was remanded in custody, and the case was adjourned to 24 May 2021 for a sentencing date to be fixed.

This case may have concluded differently. The outcome has not yet been confirmed by a public source we could find.