TINDER RAPIST CAGED FOR 51 2 YEARS
Evil Nevin to be sentenced for two other violent assaults next month
A CALLOUS sex predator who used Tinder to find his victims has been sentenced to five-and -a-half years in jail for an attack at a university.
Twisted Patrick Nevin appeared at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for an assault on a woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
The 37-year-old was found guilty by a jury of carrying out the sex attack in July 2014.
Nevin met the 36-year-old Brazilian English language student on a Tinder date and drove her to UCD.
He punched her in the back of the head and placed his hand inside her clothes, ripping them in the process.
She managed to escape and later fled the area.
During the trial the jury heard details of the text message exchanges between Nevin and the victim.
In her direct evidence and aided by a courts appointed translator, the woman said she repeatedly had to use Google Translate during these communications and often misunderstood the meaning of texts sent by Nevin, including references to sex.
After exchanging phone numbers on Tinder she and the defendant continued to communicate by exchanging texts and images on Whatsapp.
Soon into these text exchanges Nevin was asking the woman to send photos to him and to meet with him.
After sending a “selfie” picture he replied “nice, you’re sexy, any more?”
The woman told the trial she didn’t understand when he wrote, “Are you a good kisser ha?”
He later wrote, “I will teach you many things about what a man and woman can do together if you want to”. She agreed this suggested “maybe he wanted sex”.
The woman told the court she thought it would be enough to tell him “I don’t want this”.
Nevin, with addresses at Meadowlands Court, Mounttown Road in Dun Laoghaire and in Dundalk, Co Louth, then texted her “well
I only want to f**k you” and she replied with a “sad face”.
In cross-examination, counsel put it to the witness it was very clear from this text
“what this man wants is sex”.
Asked why she didn’t end the conversation then, the complainant DANGER Thug met his victims on app said: “Because I’m stupid.” She replied to Nevin, “That was rude, I’m a good person, not a whore” and he apologised. He then wrote, “I’m a porn star”. The victim said she thought he was joking and being silly.
Under cross examination, the woman said statements by Nevin to gardai that they were meeting up for sex were “completely crazy”.
She added: “I never said to him I wanted to have sex with him. Not on Tinder. Not on Whatsapp.
“I was 32. If I wanted sex I wouldn’t have said, go for a coffee. I would have said go to hotel or his room. At 32 you don’t have sex in cars.”
Defence lawyer Paul Flannery put it to her that topless photos of the defendant on Nevin’s Tinder profile were “sexual poses”. She disagreed.
Counsel also put it to her that photos on her profile “have a bit of a sexy look about them”.
She said they were professional shots of her modelling jewellery and denied she was using the app for sex.
DEVASTATED
The student told the court her life has been devastated by her attack. She said: “I still don’t know how to deal with it. I decided to bottle it up. I am afraid of people and violent reactions and I am not comfortable. “I struggle to believe a man can be kind and sweet to me.”
Det Sgt Denis Ellard told the court gardai tracked Nevin down through CCTV footage from where he picked up his victim in Dublin city centre and a camera system that monitors the registrations of cars at UCD.
Judge Cormac Quinn told Nevin yesterday: “Clearly the facts of the case mean contact on Tinder did not give any consent for sexual relations.” The thug is also set to be sentenced next month for two similar incidents – one a rape and one a sexual assault – on two females he met through Tinder.
These and the UCD attack occurred within 11 days and all involved Nevin meeting his victims after making contact on the dating app. Judge Quinn handed down the sentence, which has been backdated to when the defendant entered custody on remand in July 2014. Nevin was also banned from communicating with strangers on the internet and electronic devices for two years on his release.