Christopher Redmond was last year found guilty of sexual assault of granddaughter
, Dublin 11, had pleaded not guilty to four counts of rape and five counts of sexually assaulting his granddaughter at the Tolka Valley pitch and putt club, where Redmond worked, in Finglas on dates between January 2002 and May 2004.jury following a trial in early 2018 and sentenced to five years imprisonment by Ms Justice Úna Ní Raifeartaigh on April 27th, 2018.
However, the question of whether Redmond was fit to be tried, specifically under Section 4 of the Criminal Law Act 2006, was not addressed in the report as he had already been convicted and “that ship had sailed at that point”.An earlier report, prepared prior to his trial, found him to have a mild cognitive impairment but there was nothing to suggest he was unfit to be tried.
His barrister, Andrew Sexton SC, submitted that the safety of Redmond’s conviction had been placed in doubt by the report prepared so soon after his conviction.said the report would have addressed the question of fitness to be tried if it had been sought prior to or during the trial.
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