Sex attacker sent back to jail for extra 18 months

Convicted sex attacker Anthony Lyons bowed his head yesterday when a judge said he must go back to prison to serve another 18 months on top of six months already served.

The aviation broker — given an effective six-month sentence in July 2012 for attacking and sexually assaulting a 27-year-old woman near his home on Griffith Avenue, Dublin, in the early hours of October 3, 2010 — was told by Mr Justice John Murray he was to go back to prison immediately.

At his trial, Lyons had pleaded not guilty but was convicted and received a six-year jail sentence with five-and-a-half years of the term suspended, meaning he got an effective six-month stay in jail