William Ryan (41) was convicted by a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury last year
A garda who falsely imprisoned and sexually assaulted a woman in a Co Wicklow garda station has been jailed for six years.
During the trial, Ryan took the stand and gave a false version of events that day – later described by the prosecution as “badly-written erotica”. Sentencing Ryan to six years, Judge Elma Sheahan said: “Members of the public must be able to have trust and confidence in their gardaí.” She said Ryan's offending was “a breach of trust involving a member of An Garda Siochana and the community he was there to serve and certainly not abuse”.
At the station, Ryan sexually assaulted the woman twice by slapping her bottom and groping her breast. He then “ushered” her upstairs, where he masturbated as she stood facing away from him and he sexually assaulted her again by digitally penetrating her vagina. In her victim impact statement which she read today the woman said she “never felt so uncomfortable, so afraid” as she did during the trial process. She said Ryan's version of events was harmful and had damaged her efforts in the previous four years to build her life back.
“I felt such shame, even though I knew I had done nothing wrong,” she said, adding she suffered years of “fear, anger, torment, sadness”.
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