Serial sex attacker back in custody
A SERIAL sex offender has been remanded in custody pending the imposition of a jail term for the sexual assault of a woman.
Paul Moore, 51, had previously been on bail awaiting sentencing for the offence. The convicted rapist has been jailed six times for sex offences over the last 25 years.
Previously, the court heard Moore assaulted the victim, an au pair, in 2014 as she was travelling on a train home from college.
Gardaí examined CCTV of the incident but Moore was not recognised on the video until two years later. In the meantime, he sexually assaulted two women in separate incidents in Dublin city centre after stopping them in the street and asking them for a cigarette.
In 2015, he was jailed for 15 months for these attacks.
His other offences include raping a musician in 2001, for which he was sentenced to ten years, and raping another woman in 1995, for which he received seven years.
Moore, of Mountjoy Square, Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to sexually assaulting the woman on the southside Dart on August 28, 2014.
Judge Melanie Greally yesterday indicated she would impose a three-year sentence with 18 months suspended on Moore at the end of this month.
However, she said she wanted time to ‘fine-tune the conditions’ that would apply on his release.
Judge Greally heard evidence from his case manager and probation officer on what conditions should apply to a partly suspended sentence to assist him in refraining from offending. They advised that he should remain sober in public, and his case manager suggested he observe a night-time curfew.
Judge Greally said she was putting the case back to confirm if a special request could be made for urine analysis to be taken as part of post-release supervision by the Probation Service. She remanded Moore in custody until March 30.