A serial sex offender has appealed against the severity of his 14-year sentence for attacking women he met through Tinder. The State has counter-appealed, arguing that the sentence, of which the final two years were suspended, was too lenient. attacked three women during their first meetings in the space of eleven days in July 2014.
The court heard that the rapist, previously of Meadowlands Court, Mounttown Road, Dun Laoghaire and Dundalk, Co Louth, met both women in this case on Tinder.The computer programmer was previously sentenced to five and a half years in prison for the sexual assault of his third Tinder victim. This offence took place at the UCD campus on July 23rd that year. The attacker appealed that conviction, but subsequently withdrew it.
Another aggravating factor not reflected in the sentence, she said, was his previous convictions for causing serious harm and threatening to kill a female, for which he had been sentenced to seven years. In response to a question by Justice Isobel Kennedy, she said that the recording of 44 minutes of one of the attacks on Nevin’s phone was an aggravating factor.
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