Peter Hilliard jailed for sexual assault on appeal

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Peter Hilliard was resentenced at the Court of Appeal on 17 May 2018 to 18 months for sexual assault, with the final six months suspended.

He had pleaded guilty to two sexual assaults at a nursing home in Rathfarnham, Dublin, between February 2013 and June 2016.

The Court of Appeal found his earlier 18-month suspended sentence unduly lenient after one assault was recorded and uploaded to Facebook.