Man has sexual assault conviction quashed on appeal

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An unnamed man’s sexual assault conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal on 21 March 2023, after the court found that the child’s impaired memory prevented effective cross-examination and created a real risk of an unfair trial.

The man had been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment after a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury convicted him in May 2021 of sexually assaulting his daughter’s six-year-old friend at a Dublin address in October 2016.