Martin Joyce avoids jail for sexual assault

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Martin Joyce received a suspended sentence for sexually assaulting a nurse at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 15 March 2023. The proceedings were reported on 15 March 2023.

Joyce pleaded guilty. The assault happened at a Dublin hospital on 29 October 2020, while he was a voluntary inpatient and heavily medicated; a later report changed his diagnosis from schizophrenia to emotionally unstable personality disorder.

Judge Martin Nolan described the assault as gross and frightening. He ordered Joyce to be of good behaviour for one year and to comply with Probation Services supervision. The defence said Joyce was being correctly treated, and that the DPP accepted the offence was at the medium to lower end of the sexual-assault range.