Dublin man convicted of sexual assault on Tinder date

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The unnamed 36-year-old Dublin man was convicted of sexual assault at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, with the verdict reported on 30 November 2017. The offence occurred on UCD campus in south Dublin on 23 July 2014, after a date arranged through Tinder.

A jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict on the single count after about 90 minutes of deliberations. Judge Cormac Quinn declared the man a sex offender and remanded him in custody for sentencing on 15 December 2017.