A predator who sexually assaulted two women in Dublin city centre had just been released from serving a 10-year prison sentence for falsely imprisoning a woman, a court has heard. Philip Murphy (40) got out of prison two days before he attacked his two victims in February 2016, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard on Tuesday. Murphy, of no fixed abode in the Dublin 8 area, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexually assaulting the two women at Jervis Lane and O’Rahilly Parade in Dublin on February 25th, 2016. He stroked her shoulder and touched her chest area, repeatedly telling her: “You’re going to die tonight,” the court heard. “He was looking at me like I was naked, like I was a piece of meat,” the woman told gardaí.

Source: The Irish Times November 24, 2020 15:56 UTC