Indecent assault sentence reduced

An 80-year-old man jailed for indecently assaulting a 10-year-old boy, often multiple times a day, until he was 15, has had the final 12 months of his four-year prison sentence suspended following a successful appeal.

Patrick Bassett, of The Farmhouse, Sarsfield Court, Glanmire, Co Cork, had pleaded guilty to 22 counts of indecently assaulting the boy and one count of indecently assaulting his brother in Co Cork in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

He was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment by Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin at Cork Circuit Criminal Court on May 28, 2014.