Sentence adjourned for 'habitual sex-offender'

A serial sex offender described by gardaí as "a danger to women" and is currently serving a prison term has had his sentence for the sexual assault of a young Japanese woman adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Derek Caffrey, aged 40, of Edenmore Gardens, Raheny pleaded guilty to the sexual assault of the woman in the women's toilet at Barry's Hotel, Great Denmark Street on February 12, 2006.