The sentencing of a journalist employed by RTÉ for sexual assaulting a woman while she was sleeping in his bed has been adjourned.
Ms Justice Karen O’Connor on Monday noted that during the trial the evidence had been challenged and a particular narrative placed before the jury. The group went on to another pub and the woman and Ó Leidhin were kissing. At the end of the night, Ó Leidhin asked the woman to go back to his flat in south Dublin and they got a taxi.
The woman said she went back to sleep. Later that night Ó Leidhin drove her home and over the following days she texted him expressing annoyance at what had happened. He told gardaí that he told the woman that they had engaged in sexual foreplay and that he had been trying to wake the woman to continue “fooling around”.
Mr Condon said that his client has been suspended from his position in RTÉ and will have difficulties ever working in the industry again. He said his client is remorseful and that having put his understanding of what took place to the jury he accepts the jury verdict.
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