Court quashes conviction of man accused of sex assault on babysitter

The Court of Criminal Appeal has today quashed the conviction of a Dublin man who was accused of sexually assaulting a teenage babysitter and ordered that no retrial take place.

William Canty (aged 57) was jailed for 18 months by Judge Patrick McCartan in December last year after a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting the then teenage girl at an address in Dublin on a date unknown between December 17, 1995 and May 30, 1997.