Man jailed for sexual assault on woman after bingo

The man who sexually assaulted and threatened to kill a woman in her 60s who was on her way home from bingo in Charleville in North Cork was jailed for 10 years yesterday.

“You physically dragged her, punched her, threatened to kill her and sexually assaulted her — a nasty sexual assault which comes into the category of disgusting and revolting for a lady of her years,” said Judge Patrick J Moran.

Judge Moran imposed an eight-year jail sentence on Liam Smith, of Batt Donegan Place, Charleville, Co Cork, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court on the three charges, namely that on Sept 18, 2011, he sexually assaulted the woman, and two separate counts of threatening to kill her with the intention of making her believe that he would carry out the threat to kill her.