{"id":175125,"date":"2025-12-04T17:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/175125\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:35:09","slug":"serial-sex-offender-who-tried-to-strangle-woman-in-dublin-park-argues-dna-evidence-should-not-have-been-introduced-at-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/175125\/","title":{"rendered":"Serial sex offender who tried to strangle woman in Dublin park argues DNA evidence should not have been introduced at trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Gierlowski was jailed for 18 years in 2018 for random and violent attacks on three women in the Clondalkin area of Dublin between 2011 and 2015He was also convicted in 2019 of the sexual assault and attempted rape of a fourth woman in December 18 2010\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Slawomir Gierlowski\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6c8a8c06-d189-4eaf-9afc-61b109e34752.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Slawomir Gierlowski<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A predatory serial sex offender jailed for attempting to strangle a woman in a Dublin park has argued that DNA evidence found on a cigarette packet near the location of the attack should not have been introduced into his trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">His barristers today told the Court of Appeal that there was \u201ca fragile circumstantial case\u201d against Slawomir Gierlowski (41) featuring \u201cweak forensic evidence\u201d. Counsel for the State, however, argued that each piece of circumstantial evidence needed to be looked at together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gierlowski was jailed for 18 years in 2018 for random and violent attacks on three women in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-175125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}