Sex attacker ran away when tourist slapped him

A 58-year-old man grabbed an English woman visitor by the buttocks as she walked along a road in Cork City, but she slapped him across the face and he ran away.

He later denied the sex assault claiming it was a Special Branch set-up and the woman had been paid to testify against him.

The victim of the sexual assault yesterday went to the trouble and expense of flying to Cork to give evidence in the trial of Patrick Vaughan of Oaklodge, Douglas Road, Cork.