Denis O’Donovan, 38, is today for the first time unmasked as a sex offender, after a judge lifted reporting restrictions in the case
A woman kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a Limerick father of one, bravely faced her attacker in court and told him: “I refuse to let you destroy the rest of my life”.
O’Donovan, with an address at Ballyryan, Donohill, Co Tipperary, had pleaded not guilty at his trial last April to one count of falsely imprisoning the woman, as well as three counts of sexually assaulting her, and one count of assault causing her harm, on the night of January 17, 2020. A jury at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court did not accept O’Donovan’s pleas, and convicted him on all but one alleged sexual assault.
The woman made her escape when she asked O’Donovan if she could get more comfortable in the car. After exiting the car “the woman was so desperate to get away she ran through briars in a ditch”. “She stayed there listening out for car, and she ultimately she returned to her house and made a 999 call and alerted gardai”.
The DNA results produced by Forensic Science Ireland “strongly supported” O’Donovan had sexually assaulted the victim. Gardai found the victim’s torch in a briar covered ditch where she had hid from O’Donovan, as well as car tyre marks in the area where he had assaulted her.
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