A DUBLIN man who is already serving a seven year sentence for rape has been given an additional year for what a judge described as a horrific sexual attack on a young woman with epilepsy.
The court heard the man has two other previous sex offence convictions as well as the rape.
Judge Kieran O'Connor prohibited publication of the defendant's name.
The judge was told the man approached his victim in a Dublin clinic and asked her to walk with him down a corridor as he was feeling suicidal.
As they walked past the men's toilet, he dragged her into a cubicle. He pulled off her clothes and sexually assaulted her before running from the building.
The man had initially pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting the woman on February 21st 1994. But before the trial began he was rearraigned and admitted the offence.
Mr Hugh Hartnett, defending, asked Judge O'Connor not to impose an additional sentence on the defendant. He was doing well in prison.
Mr Hartnett said his client had been rendered unconscious for two weeks due to an accident in 1982. As a result he had a serious brain disorder which affected his ability to control himself.
A report from a psychiatrist, Dr Art O'Connor, suggested: that the defendant had now established some discipline, he said.
Judge O'Connor said it was difficult to find anything in the case which could litigate in the defendant's favour. The unfortunate victim had had a horrific experience. It had been an unwarranted and unprovoked attack and the defendant was already serving a seven year sentence for rape, he said.
The maximum he could impose was five years' imprisonment. He decided to impose one year to be served at the end of the rape sentence.
In the Central Criminal Court rape case last year, the defendant was named. Mr Justice Johnson was told the man had sexually assaulted a woman in the front garden of her home in October 1994.