Corkman put on €5k bond for sex attack

A 58-year-old man was put on a two-year peace bond yesterday after grabbing an English visitor to Cork by the buttocks as she waited at traffic lights.

Judge Aingil Ní Chondúin made it a €5,000 bond and said Patrick Vaughan would have to pay that money if he stepped out of line.

“I take matters like this very seriously. You expect to go about your business in safety,” the judge said, adding that a sexual assault was twice as unpleasant as any other offence coming before the district court.