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Well-connected rapist gets 6 month sentence.

  • 30-07-2012 1:10pm
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    http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0730/lyons-jailed-for-six-months-for-sexual-assault.html
    Anthony Lyons, the owner of an aviation leasing company, from Griffith Avenue in Dublin, originally denied attacking the woman when arrested near the scene.
    However, ten days later he went back to gardaí and claimed he attacked the woman because he was on cholesterol medication, a defence that was rejected by the jury.
    Mr Justice Desmond Hogan today sentenced him to six years in prison, but suspended five-and-a-half years of the sentence.
    Lyons, who was convicted last month, was also ordered by the judge to pay €75,000 to the victim.
    Afterwards, the victim’s family said they were very upset by the sentence and said that this was a case where "money talks".
    Lyons is now a registered sex offender.
    He attacked the woman as she walked along Griffith Avenue on 3 October 2010.
    He came up behind her and said "are you going to get home safely", before rugby tackling her into the trees.
    She cried for help but he told her to be quiet. He put his hand over her throat and mouth before sexually assaulting her.
    The victim managed to hit him on the head with her mobile phone.
    Lyons tried to take it off her and broke off the cover before continuing. She managed to call 999 during the attack and he ran away when a passerby shouted at him.
    However, Lyons left his umbrella behind as he tried to escape and was only around 100 metres from his home when the victim, who was in a garda car, identified him and he was arrested.

    How in God's name does the judge feel that 6 months is an appropriate sentence for such a sinister sexual assault? The woman in question was a teacher of one of his kids, and when in court he tried to blame his "cholestoral medication"?

    This guy lives down the road from me and I certainly don't want him out in 6 bloody months.
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