Sex offender to serve 6 months for ‘serious’ sex assault

A high-profile aviation broker who claimed his cholesterol medication made him sexually assault a young woman has been sentenced to six years with the final five and half years suspended.

Anthony Lyons, aged 51, was also ordered by Judge Desmond Hogan to pay his victim €75,000 in compensation.

Lyons, of Griffith Avenue in Dublin, pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to the sexual assault of the 27-year-old woman in the early hours of Oct 3, 2010.