Murad Kandokar jailed for sexual assaults on public transport

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Murad Kandokar was sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to two and a half years in prison for two sexual assaults, with the final 14 months suspended. The proceedings were reported on 10 March 2022.

Kandokar pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman on a Luas in Dublin city on 26 May 2021 and another woman on a Galway-to-Dublin Airport Citylink bus on 17 July 2019.

Judge Martin Nolan said the behaviour was compulsive but criminal, and that the assaults were at the lower end of the sexual assault scale while remaining extremely distressing for the victims. The report said Kandokar was already serving a prison term in Midlands Prison for a similar sexual assault.