Hotel room sex attacker jailed for four months
A MAN who sexually assaulted a hotel guest after following her to her room has been jailed for four months.
Having heard how William McAdam (34) groped the woman’s breasts and told her he wanted to have sex with her, District Judge Peter King said his offences were “at the upper end of the scale”, especially as he had been assessed as posing a high likelihood of reoffending.
At Antrim Magistrates Court, McAdam was also told he has to sign the police sex offenders register for the next seven years and is subject to a seven-year Sexual Offences Prevention Order.
At an earlier hearing, McAdam, from Ballymena Road in Doagh, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault and one of trespassing into a room at the Dunadry Hotel with intent to commit sexual assault last September 3.
The court had heard how he entered a female guest’s room “and grabbed her left breast”.
She pushed him away but he grabbed her other breast. When she pushed him away again, said a lawyer, “he grabbed her around the waist and said that he wanted to have sex with her”.
McAdam was taken to the cells, but freed on bail pending an appeal a short time later. DERRY Girls star Saoirse-Monica Jackson has given her support to local charity HURT (Have Your Tomorrows) as it attempts to win a National Lottery Award.
The actress, who plays Erin Quinn in the hit Channel 4 comedy series, visited the project yesterday to learn more about its lifesaving work in the field of addiction services.
HURT, which has been supported by National Lottery funding from the Big Lottery Fund, is a family support group and suicide prevention charity which offers help to people suffering from addiction and their families.
It was set up by Sadie O’Reilly following the death of her son Tony from a drug overdose.
HURT is appealing for votes in order to be named Best Health Project in the 2018 National Lottery Awards — the annual search for the public’s favourite National Lottery-funded projects.
During her visit Saoirse-Monica met Sadie and the rest of the HURT team and joined young people taking part in one of the organisation’s personal development programmes.
The star said: “Drug and alcohol addiction is such an important issue and Derry, like many other places, has its fair share of problems.
However, it is heartening to learn that organisations like HURT can offer much needed help and assistance not only to people suffering from addiction but their families too.
Sadie commented: “It was a great honour to welcome Saoirse to HURT. The success of Derry Girls put our city and our young people on the map for all the right reasons.
“Saoirse is a great ambassador for Derry and our young people.”
To vote for HURT in the 2018 National Lottery Awards, visit www/lottery.goodcauses.org. uk/awards/health, call 0844 836 9695 or post a tweet on Twitter containing their hashtag #NLAHurt.
Voting closes at midnight on July27.