A SECURITY guard who posed as a bouncer and insisted on taking an Italian woman home because she had too much to drink, later broke into her home and sexually assaulted her.
Carl Murphy (26) approached the woman who was outside a Dublin pub with her two male Polish friends and told them he would bring her home.
Garda Séamus Houlihan told Mary Rose Gearty, prosecuting, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, that the men did not want to leave her alone with Murphy so they travelled in the taxi with him.
They later told gardaí that Murphy was “quite aggressive” and insisted on bringing her home with the two men and he then helped her friends put her into bed.
The men made sure Murphy left the house with them and waited around the area before they too went home but the victim later woke up to find him kneeling by her bed and digitally penetrating her.
Murphy then asked her for sex and when she refused he took a mobile phone from the house and left.
Garda Houlihan said the woman had since returned to Italy and although she was traumatised by the event, she was confident this would recede with time.
Murphy, Church Road, East Wall, Dublin, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the now 24-year- old woman and to burglary at her home on May 1st, 2005.
He had no previous convictions and had €2,100 in court to offer the victim as “a practical expression of his remorse”.
Blaise O’Carroll SC, defending, told Judge Patricia Ryan that Murphy fully accepted that what he did was “completely wrong” and asked that the case be adjourned to allow him to have more time to raise additional compensation.
The judge adjourned the case to March and ordered a probation report to ascertain Murphy’s likelihood of reoffending.