Offaly man convicted of sex assault on teen in woods

A 45-year-old Offaly man has been found guilty of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in remote woodlands nine years ago.

The man had pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to one charge of falsely imprisoning the now 23-year-old woman in a car on November 6, 2000 and counts of aggravated sexual assault and sexual assault against her on the same date.