Garda<\/a> Sgt Jessica Hargadon gave evidence the woman and two friends went to Copper Face Jacks nightclub where they encountered Brady and his friend. The woman was introduced to him and thought he was interested in one of her friends.<\/p>\nThey decided to continue the night and went to Brady\u2019s home, where he asked to kiss the woman. She said no and that she thought he wanted to be with her friend. He said he wanted to be with her as her friend wasn\u2019t paying him enough attention.<\/p>\n
She later went to sleep in one room, while her friends slept in different rooms. She was woken up by Brady raping her.<\/p>\n
She told him to get off or pushed him off. She asked him to let her sleep and turned on her side. He said something like: \u201cYou\u2019re scaring me, I feel like I\u2019ve attacked you. I\u2019m sorry.\u201d <\/p>\n
She thought she could then hear him masturbating beside her. He tried to have sex with her again momentarily. She told him to leave, which he did.<\/p>\n
The woman made a complaint to garda\u00ed two days later and was examined at a sexual assault treatment unit. Brady co-operated with the investigation and made a voluntary prepared statement in August 2024.<\/p>\n
He claimed the woman flirted with him and he woke up to find her kissing him. He said they engaged in consensual sex which the woman stopped as she had a romantic interest in someone else.<\/p>\n
Reading her victim impact statement, the woman said Brady \u201cused my story as your own\u201d in his statement to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe evil it takes to do that is incredible,\u201d she said. \u201cYou didn\u2019t put together a simple story. You knew what happened and still you decided to sit down and write what sounded to me like a sick fantasy.\u201d<\/p>\n
The woman said she chose to come to court alone to spare her family from her cross-examination. In contrast, Brady had \u201cfamily outside those doors waiting\u201d. She said the difference was because she \u201cwas carrying a different story\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cYours came with no shame at all,\u201d she said. \u201cMine came wrapped in shame and that changes what you can ask someone to sit through.\u201d<\/p>\n
Testimonials from Brady\u2019s father, siblings, a family friend and a coach from Ashbourne GAA club were handed to the court.<\/p>\n
Sean Guerin, defending, noted the testimonials referred to Brady as hard-working, trustworthy and supportive of others, as well as someone involved in charity fundraising and sport.<\/p>\n
Guerin said his client trained as a pilot but was unable to work as he could not secure garda clearance. Brady then qualified and worked as a flight instructor, until the same vetting issue emerged.<\/p>\n
He submitted the conviction\u2019s consequences will be \u201ccareer-long\u201d for Brady and said this was an \u201cunusual and significant\u201d mitigating factor.<\/p>\n
He said his instructions were that Brady will not appeal the conviction. \u201cIn that sense, he accepts verdict of the jury,\u201d he said. \u201cHe fought the case on the basis of an account he gave and that\u2019s as far as I can put the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Imposing sentence, Greally said the court considered the sexual violation of a sleeping person to be \u201cintrinsically at a higher level\u201d.<\/p>\n
She noted the will of a sleeping person is \u201cso totally and completely overborne that they have no power to resist or refuse\u201d and that the person violated can never know the full extent of what happened. She also said there was evidence of \u201cgaslighting\u201d by Brady.<\/p>\n
She set a headline sentence of eight years, which she reduced to six years to take account of the mitigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trainee pilot has been jailed for six years for raping a college student he met on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,42851,61,60,15949,43],"class_list":["post-573180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-central-criminal-court","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-meath","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573180","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=573180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}