Man loses sentence appeal over sexually assaulting woman who showed him room

A man who went to view a student’s room advertised on Daft.ie and sexually assaulted her when she let him in has lost an appeal against his sentence.

Indian national Dileesh Soman, aged 33, of Tramway Terrace, Douglas, Cork, had pleaded guilty at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to sexually assaulting a woman at an address in a different part of Cork City on November 11, 2013.

He was sentenced to four years’ in jail, with the final 12 months suspended, by Judge Sean Ó Donnabháin on February 20, 2015.