Sex assault on tourist in toilets of fast-food restaurant

A Spanish visitor using the toilets at a fast-food outlet in Cork City had the cubicle door kicked in and her face and head banged against the floor by an attacker who removed some of her clothing and sexually assaulted her.

Detective Garda Colin Greenway gave that evidence yesterday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court where Philip Kelly, aged 26, of 42 Glenfields Park, Ballyvolane, Cork, pleaded guilty to the sexual assault of the Spanish woman.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said: “There are disturbing aspects of voyeuristic behaviour in the manner in which he secreted himself in the toilets and waited for this lady to come in and the physical and sexual violence with which he set about her.”