Taking a step back is too much of a Transformation
Kathryn with Ellie KATHRYN Thomas admitted she is finding it hard to take a step back despite juggling wedding planning, her own business, a TV career and a baby.
The Operation Transformation presenter gave birth to her first child Ellie in March last year.
The 40-year-old fitness fanatic
Cork Circuit Criminal Court heard the youngsters were at the back of a bus on December 4 of last year when Anthony Quigley sat next to them.
The trial heard from the girls via video link.
One of the young women said the 45-year-old touched her inappropriately after she started coughing.
He placed his hands on her shoulder before reaching for her thighs. She added: “I was terrified. He started patting my thigh a few times throughout the journey.
“He was pushing close to me and breathing on me. He was invading my privacy. He smelled awful and he asked a few times if we liked his aftershave.”
Another teenager said Quigley repeatedly said she was sexy. He called her hot and insisted that she must have a boyfriend.
She told the court she was terrified by the incident.
The girl added: “I was scared to go to the bus driver because I did not know him. He [Quigley] kept touching my friend on the thigh and the leg.
“He took out a piece of paper and gave me his phone number. He told me to call him and to send him compliments”.
The girl said as he left his seat he grabbed her hand and squeezed it very hard.
She added: “I felt scared. I did not know what he was going to do. I did not told Irish Daily Mirror: “It is like when you run your own business and you’re juggling a couple of different careers and you become a new mum, you talk to your friends and you look at women in business and you go ‘sometimes you got to take a little step back’.
“So I’m not every good at that. I’m not very good at taking a step
He said he only engaged in banter with the girls and refuted suggestions that there was inappropriate contact.
Quigley insisted inappropriate touching wasn’t his style.
He said the girls seemed pleased to chat.
Quigley added: “I could hear them talking in the back of the bus saying, ‘Jesus he is a gas man’.”
A jury of four women and eight men found Quigley guilty on all seven counts.
Judge Brian O’callaghan him in custody until his sentencing hearing on June 2.
The court heard Quigley is also due to be sentenced on that date in relation to another incident.
He was found guilty in February of an unprovoked attack which left a motorist fearing for her life after she was dragged from her car and beaten.
CORK CIRCUIT CRIMINAL COURT
He kept touching my friend on the thigh and the leg WITNESS
back but over the next couple of months, in television, it’s busy and then it quietens down in the summer and then [her business] Pure Results picks up for me.
“It is just about trying to find a bit more balance and I am getting better at it.”
The Co Carlow presenter, who is set to wed her long-term partner Padraig Mcloughlin in August, admitted the pair only left themselves five months to plan their nuptials.
Kathryn hinted the ceremony will take place in Ireland in front of 200 of their nearest and dearest friends and the star revealed she has enlisted nine bridesmaids for the big day.