Six-month sentence for Walsh accuser

X Factor judge Louis Walsh is pleased and relieved after a man who falsely accused him of sexual assault was sentenced to six months in jail, his spokeswoman said.

Leonard Watters, an unemployed dance teacher, pleaded guilty to making two false reports to gardaí that the pop music mogul groped him in Dublin nightspot Krystle, last April.

Described as a Walter Mitty-type at the city’s district court, the 24-year-old father of two from Navan, Co Meath, was granted bail to appeal the sentence.