An apprentice jockey has been sentenced to four years imprisonment for “a nightmare scenario” endured by a student whom he sexually assaulted and falsely imprisoned after meeting her outside a nightclub in Tralee, Co Kerry.

An apprentice jockey who followed a student, bringing with him duct tape and scissors, told gardaí he was angry after she rejected his sexual advances, that he was into bondage, and that he could not control his urges.