A 47 YEAR OLD IRISHMAN WHO IDECENTLY ASSAULTED A 9

A 47 YEAR OLD IRISHMAN WHO IDECENTLY ASSAULTED A 9 YEAR OLD
GIRL WAS JAILED FOR FOUR MONTHS TODAY (WEDS)
PATRICK O’SHEA WAS VISITING THE HOME OF THE VICTIM’S MOTHER
WHEN THE ASSAULT HAPPENED INNER LONDON CROWN COURT HEARD.

“O’SHEA PERSUADED THE CHILD’S MOTHER IT WAS TOO LATE TO GO
HOME,” SAID MR.

W.

GRANT PROSECUTING.

HE SLEPT ON THE FLOOR AND THE WOMAN SLEPT ON THE SETTEE.

THE GIRL WHO HAD ALREADY GONE TO BED THEN “CAME INTO THE
LIVING ROOM BECAUSE SHE SAID SHE WAS COLD,” SAID COUNSEL.

HER MOTHER TOLD HER TO SLEEP ON THE SETTEE WITH HER BUT HER
DAUGHTER SAID SHE WANTED TO SLEEP ON THE FLOOR THE COURT HEARD.

WHILE SHE WAS LYING NEXT TO O’SHEA “HE PUT HIS ARM AROUND
HER, PUT HIS HAND UNDER HER NIGHTDRESS” AND IDECENTLY ASSAULTED
HER,SAID COUNSEL.

THE YOUNGSTER ONLY TOLD HER MOTHER WHAT HAD HAPPENED A FEW
DAYS LATER ADDED MR GRANT.

O’SHEA PLEADED GUILTY TO IDENCENTLY ASSAULTING THE GIRL ON
NOVEMBER 23 LAST YEAR
DEFENCE COUNSEL MR.

L.

KERSHAW SAID THE ASSAULT WAS “WHOLLY OUT
OF CHARACTER.

”
HE ADDED THAT O’SHEA HAD BEEN ATTEMPTING TO END HIS ALCOHOL
ADDICTION BUT “DRINK HAD CERTAINLY BEEN CONSUMED BY O’SHEA ON THE
NIGHT OF THIS OFFENCE.

O’SHEA HAD BEEN LIVING AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE HOSTEL,KINGSDOWN
CLOSE, NORTH KENSINGTON,A UNIT SET UP TO HELP ALCHOLICS.

MR KERSHAW SAID THAT O’SHEA HAD BEEN “OFF ALCOHOL” FOR FIVE
MONTHS PRIOR TO THE INCIDENT.

BUT ON THAT NIGHT HE HAD MET SOME FRIENDS AND WAS PERSUADED TO
HAVE DRINK OF SPECIAL BREW AND GO TO A PUB IN CAMBERWELL.

HE HAD FIVE
PINTS OF BEER BEFORE THE ASSAULT ADDED COUNSEL.

“HE HAD NO RECOLLECTION OF THE ACTUAL ASSAULT BECAUSE OF HIS
BEFUDDLED STATE,” SAID MR KERSHAW
JAILING O’SHEA JUDGE SIR DAVID HUGHES MORGAN SAID: “I TAKE
INTO CONSIDERATION BY YOUR PLEA OF GUILTY YOUR REMORSE BUT THE
SENTENCE MUST DEMONSTRATE THE ABOHERRENCE OF SOCIETY AT ACTIVITIES OF
THIS KIND.

”
I ACCEPT THAT YOU WERE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRINK AND DID
NOT SET OUT TO ASSAULT THIS GIRL.

BUT SOCIETY REQUIRES NOTHING LESS
THAN AN IMMEDIATE CUSTODIAL SENTENCE.

”

ENDS*