A man who went to view a student’s room advertised on Daft.ie and sexually assaulted her when she let him in has lost an appeal against his sentence.

A student advertised a room in her apartment for rental share on Daft.ie but she was sexually assaulted in a bizarre fashion by a man who spoke of bad energy in the rooms before his actions became sexual and he later plucked a hair from her head to put in his wallet.