Swim coach jailed for sexual exploitation of girls admits attack on RTÉ cameraman at court

In November, Matthew Coward was jailed because he set up a camera in his office and filmed girls changing

Matthew Coward had last year received a three-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after pleading guilty to three counts of sexual exploitation of three girls and three counts of production of child pornography on dates between September 1, 2021, and February 26, 2022. Picture: Paddy Cummins

A swimming coach jailed for secretly filming young girls as they got changed has been spared an extra prison sentence for a "frightening, unnecessary, damaging" attack on an RTÉ news cameraman outside a courthouse in Dublin.

Matthew Coward, 32, formerly of Shantalla Drive, Santry, Dublin, received a three-year sentence in November following a Garda divisional protective services unit investigation into his activities at a swimming complex.