Man jailed for sexual assaulting woman in changing room

A man who had ambitions to become a professional boxer was jailed yesterday for a sexual assault he carried out in the changing room of a Limerick hotel gym when his victim was putting on her swimsuit.

Limerick Circuit Court was told Shane Byrnes is a danger to women. It was the second time he had carrying out this kind of attack on a woman in a hotel gym and a probation report stated he was at risk of committing a similar offence within 12 months.

Byrnes, age 26, of 34 Hyde Road, Ballinacurra Weston, pleaded guilty to sexual assault at the leisure centre of the Castletroy Park Hotel on April 18, 2014.