Man who sexually assaulted young cousin jailed after failed mugging while on the run

The man had gone missing just before the jury delivered the verdict and had been “at large” until he robbed a 62-year-old woman of her handbag on a Dublin city street last year. File image. 

A convicted sex offender who was found guilty in his absence by a jury after he went on the run was brought back before the courts after he mugged a woman on her way to work 18 months later.

The man, 26, who cannot be named so as not to identify his victim in the sex assault trial heard at the Central Criminal Court, was found guilty by a jury on 14 counts of sexually assaulting his cousin after a four-day trial in May 2018.