Lombard sentence appeal adjourned
The Court of Criminal Appeal today adjourned an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions against the leniency of a seven year sentence, with two years suspended, on a unemployed Cork man who sexually assaulted 16 children over 16 months in fast food restaurants, swimming pools and sports grounds in the city.
The court was told by Ms Marjorie Farrelly BL, for the DPP, that James Lombard (aged 37), Blarney St, Cork was subsequently given a second seven years sentence to run consecutively with the original sentence imposed on May 31 last year after he pleaded guilty on November 4 last year to the sexual assault of a 10 year old girl on February 20 last year, while he was on bail on the original charges.
