M. C. appealed 10-year sentence for indecent assault

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M. C. appealed the severity of his ten-year sentence for 72 indecent assault convictions at the Court of Appeal on 19 October 2021.

The offences were alleged to have occurred between October 1973 and August 1979 in the complainant’s Dublin home.

The Circuit Criminal Court imposed the overall ten-year sentence on 3 May 2019, with consecutive and concurrent terms.

The Court of Criminal Appeal had dismissed his conviction appeal on 25 March 2021, before this sentence appeal.