A Bangladeshi who followed a 14-year-old girl with Downs Syndrome into a shop and sexually assaulted her has been given a suspended sentence of three years.

A Romanian man who savagely slashed his ex-girlfriend's face in what was described as "a Transylvanian horror story worthy of the pages of Bram Stoker" has been jailed for five years by Judge Frank O'Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.