Sex offender told woman to give him her underwear

A convicted sex offender who harassed his neighbour by following her into her apartment and ordering her to give him her underwear is to be sentenced later.

Padraig Hopkins, aged 41, who has been on the sex offenders’ register since he was sentenced to four years in jail in 2008 over charges of false imprisonment and sexual assault, also took the woman’s bra and knickers from the laundry room in the apartment block and wore them before asking her what she thought.

Hopkins, of The Glen, Waterford, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to harassing Rutha Sventriata on June 26, 2014, at Leinster Rd in Rathmines.