PRISON FOR MAN FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE CITY

Date Published: 26-Nov-2007

A 46-year-old computer programmer, described by a judge as a “sexual predator”, has been sentenced to three years in prison with the last two years suspended at Galway Circuit Criminal Court.

Gerard Walsh of Ower, Roscahill, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 16 year old girl in the Shantalla area of the city in December 1 and 31, 2002.

Walsh had been exposing himself to women for twenty years, before he ‘graduated’ to this assault, reports from therapists handed into court revealed.