A man who sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl on a Ryanair flight from Manchester to Dublin has been handed a suspended sentence.
Tareq Elkudir, 61, with an address at Hunters’ Lane, Ashbourne, Co Meath, was arrested after he disembarked from the plane in Dublin Airport.
Elkudir pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to one count of sexual assault on the Ryanair flight on May 2, 2022. Her father had booked her ticket and checked her on to the flight and the girl was due to return on April 29, however, she decided to stay a few days longer and booked her return flight for the day in question.
The man was drinking from a litre-bottle of Jameson and grabbed her hand with force several times. The girl said Elkudir hit her a few times on the upper left arm and took her hand several times and kissed it. She managed to get the attention of a woman in another seat and signalled for her to press the button to call cabin crew, but nobody came. A male passenger in another row asked the girl if she was ok and she replied: “No, this man keeps touching me.”
Garda Black agreed with counsel for the defence that Elkudir was a completely different person the following morning and was very apologetic. He told gardaí he deserved his punishment and that he was really sorry.
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