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A Mayo man who subjected a woman to an aggravated sexual assault in her hotel room has been jailed for seven and a half years.<\/p>\n
Ciaran Tate (29) with an address at Killenrevagh, Hollymount in Claremorris was convicted of aggravated sexual assault, assault causing harm and false imprisonment at the hotel on a date in November 2024, by a Central Criminal Court jury following a trial.<\/p>\n
He was acquitted of non-fatal strangulation and making threats to kill on the same occasion.<\/p>\n
Tate and the woman did not know each other prior to these events. He has no previous convictions.<\/p>\n
Passing sentence yesterday, Ms Justice Melanie Greally said the offences had been intensely traumatising for the injured party and caused her profound harm.<\/p>\n
She said the probation report notes Tate accepts the verdict of the jury but continues to have difficulty associating himself with the offences. She said victim empathy was limited due to his tendency to distance himself from the events.<\/p>\n
An investigating Garda told Garret Baker SC, prosecuting, that the woman was staying overnight at the hotel. Tate was separately staying overnight at the hotel to attend a function. They were staying in rooms beside each other. They were not previously known to each other.<\/p>\n
Tate had been involved in a traffic collision earlier in the day, before arriving at the hotel.<\/p>\n
Following the events of that night, he was arrested and said due to the state of his intoxication he had no memory of what occurred.<\/p>\n
Tate was found naked and passed out on the woman\u2019s bed and, while being escorted out, he crawled to his own room. CCTV footage revealed the events lasted 18 minutes.<\/p>\n
The woman was taken to a sexual assault treatment unit for treatment. She had sustained bruising to her arms and shoulders, marks to her neck and she was hoarse the following day.<\/p>\n
The probation report assessed Tate to be currently at moderate risk of re-offending if left in the community.<\/p>\n
Ms Justice Greally imposed a sentence of eight and half years with the final 12 months suspended on strict conditions including engaging with interventions addressing sexually harmful behaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 A Mayo man who subjected a woman to an aggravated sexual assault in her hotel room has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-521407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521407","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=521407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}