A history of savage attacks, threats and planned sex assault
1999
A teenage Patrick Nevin, living in Denmark with his father, is invited to a friend’s house. When his friend is out, Nevin rapes the boy’s mother. He is convicted but, as a minor, Danish authorities simply detained him for several weeks and deport him back to Ireland.
2000
Nevin uses his lifelong interest in computers to get a job with a Dublin technology company, where he starts a relationship with a workmate, Jennifer Arkins. On a workplace night out in a pub in Dublin’s South King Street, she is awarded office ‘Female Heart Throb’. Another workmate wins the ‘Male Heart Throb’ award. Nevin goes into a fury when workmates joke that the two winners should go on a date together. He goes home and beats his girlfriend’s two dogs to death with a barrister railing. When she comes home, he chokes her, hits her with a brick, kicks her in the head, punches her and spits in her face. Ms Arkins, 22 at the time, suffers a fractured skull and serious cuts and bruises. He asks her how she would like to die – either by choking or stabbing – and tells her he has killed ten women and that she was going to be ‘number 11’. Ms Arkins later tells Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that she prayed for a quick death as she was choked, punched, kicked, spat on and beaten. After the brutal attack, she manages to escape when Nevin falls asleep. She has to be treated in Beaumont Hospital.
2001
Nevin is jailed for seven years for the attack on Ms Arkins. The judge warns that he could be a threat to women in the future. Speaking after the trial, Ms Arkins’s mother, Marie Metcalfe, expresses anger at the sentence handed down to Nevin.
2006
Nevin is released from prison.
September, 2010
Gardaí arrest him on Dublin’s Waterloo Road after seeing him acting suspiciously. They find two illegal stun guns in his bag. They believe he has been stalking for a new victim but have no proof.
April 2012
Nevin is given a four-year suspended sentence for possession of the stun guns and walks free.
JULY 12, 2014
Nevin rapes a woman in an attack at Bellewstown, Co. Meath
JULY 16, 2014
He sexually assaults another woman in an unknown location in Meath.
JULY 23, 2014
He sexually assaults a Brazilian student after driving her to the UCD campus.
June, 2017
Nevin is acquitted of sexually assaulting a woman in Meath and walks out of court shouting at the gardaí about a ‘stitch-up’. One of the female jurors bursts into tears.
NOVEMBER 2017
Nevin is convicted of sexual assault on one of his victims.
June 2018
A big breakthrough. In the upcoming case for sexually assaulting a woman in Meath, a judge rules that the jury will be allowed to hear about his pattern of attacking women he meets on Tinder. Before that trial begins, Alex Owens SC, prosecuting, applies to the court to allow ‘conduct evidence’ to be heard by the jury. This is evidence of similar behaviour. In this case it was Nevin’s use of Tinder to approach two other women and then drive them to a secluded location to attack them. Mr Owens tells the court the evidence is admissible because of the ‘inherent improbability of several persons making up similar stories’. Judge Eileen Creedon rules that because of the similar modus operandi demonstrated by the defendant, the evidence from the other complainants is relevant. Judge Creedon also rules against a defence application to have court reports about Nevin’s previous trials and convictions removed from the internet for the duration of the trial.
June 19, 2018
Faced with a jury knowing about his pattern of attacking women he meets on Tinder, Nevin, who was previously convicted of sexually assaulting a student, pleads guilty to carrying out sex attacks on two other women he met on Tinder.