Sexually assaulted while out for a walk

A French woman who went for a walk along the bank of the River Blackwater in North Cork was sexually assaulted by a young man in a bizarre series of events.

Patrick Tobin, aged 27, of 8 Fanmore, Gould’s Hill, Mallow, Co Cork, was jailed for four years, with the last 18 months suspended, for sexually assaulting the French visitor on July 2, 2016.

Garda John Horgan said that when she went into a field, she saw some young men tending horses and asked them for the best path for a walk by the river.