Man gets 12 years for attacks on two women

A homeless English alcoholic - who scavenged for food in supermarket bins - has been jailed for 12 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney for savage attacks on two north Dublin women.

Patrick Fogarty, of no fixed abode but with relatives in Tipperary, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to aggravated sexual assault, false imprisonment and assault causing harm to a woman in Malahide, on the nights of April 21-22 and April 24-25, 2007.