DPP appeals leniency of sex assault sentence

A hearing date on the leniency of the sentence imposed on Anthony Lyons, a businessman convicted of sexual assault, has been applied for at the Court of Criminal Appeal by the DPP.

DPP appeals leniency of sex assault sentence

Mr Lyons, aged 52, of Griffith Avenue, Dublin, is due to be released from prison mid-December after he was jailed for six months at the end of July for attacking and sexually assaulting a woman on Griffith Avenue over two years ago.

Kerida Naidoo, prosecuting, applied to the court for a date within the next three weeks, in the hope of having the case heard prior to Mr Lyons’ release.

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