Suspended sentence for Mayo man in sexual assault case

A Mayo man has been given a three years suspended sentence by Mr Justice Barry White at the Central Criminal Court for sexually assaulting a woman in Longford after both had "made a day of it drinking".

Zeno Higgins (aged 33), a self-employed construction industry worker, of Carantulla, Claremorris pleaded guilty in October to sexually assaulting the woman on September 2, 2006.