Tipperary man fails to overturn kidnap-and-assault conviction

A Tipperary man has failed in an attempt to overturn his conviction for the kidnap and sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in a remote woodland 10 years ago.

At his Central Criminal Court trial in October last year, Joseph Finnerty (aged 46) denied the false imprisonment, aggravated sexual assault and sexual assault of the now 24-year-old woman in a car he drove to a remote Co Offaly woodland on November 6, 2000.