Sex offender posed as nightclub boss

A Dublin man jailed for assaulting a young woman in the Dublin mountains in 2006 when he posed as a taxi driver, posed as a nightclub manager and offered a job to a young woman, a court in Tralee heard yesterday.

Robert Quigley (34),Tallaght, Dublin, had been using the internet to make contact with African women, the Circuit Criminal Court was told during an application by the State to have the suspended part of his sentence reactivated. In May 2007, Quigley was given a 12-year sentence in the same court for abduction, sexual assault, and assault causing harm to a young graduate in Dublin in November 2006 when he posed as a taxi driver outside a nightclub.

The woman was driven to the Dublin mountains by Quigley and beaten repeatedly. She thought she was going to die but was rescued by a group of walkers who came upon the car.

Four years of the 12-year sentence was suspended providing he keep the peace. In 2007 Quigley also pleaded guilty to charges in relation to another young woman including false imprisonment and assault, as well as theft in Kerry in 2006.

He was given a number of prison sentences to run in conjunction with the earlier sentence.

Suspended sentence
Yesterday, State solicitor Ed O'Sullivan said he was applying at the request of the Probation service in Dublin to have the case re-entered "for the purposes of imposing the suspended part of the sentence". Probation officer Tim O'Brien said Quigley had been released from prison in November 2012 and had largely complied with conditions. In late August, a complaint was made by a young woman who worked in a Dublin petrol station that Quigley had represented himself as a nightclub manager. They had exchanged telephone numbers and he was to offer her work.

Interviewed by gardaí, he admitted "he gave himself a false persona", Mr O'Brien said. He was at high risk of reoffending, the court was told. If he were to be released on bail, the Probation Service were seeking six conditions including that he "have no non-related females into his residence without a responsible adult present". He is also to "desist" from using the internet for procuring sexual partners and complete a sex offenders programme.

Further conditions
Judge Carroll Moran imposed further conditions including a curfew at his parents house in Dublin between 10pm and 7am. The State has liberty to apply for activation of the sentence.

Quigley is also not to miss appointments with the Probation Service. The matter has been adjourned until March 2014.