Ireland Crime

Named as

Victim

Offences

Threatening to distribute intimate images; assault causing harm

Where

Co. Westmeath

Reporting

1 report, 4 Dec 2024 to 4 Dec 2024

Outlets

thejournal.ie

• Man sentenced in Mullingar over assault on garda and intimate image threat Threatening to distribute intimate images; assault causing harm · Co. Westmeath

  Stephen Seery, 22, threatened to distribute intimate images of a girl on 23 August 2022 unless she met him for sex at a bridge near the old abandoned train station in Mullingar. Garda Gemma Prendergast went to the meeting place posing as the victim, and Seery punched and kicked her in the head when she identified herself as a garda. He was arrested at the scene by other gardaí and later pleaded guilty to an offence under the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020 and to assault causing harm. In December 2024, Judge Keenan Johnson at Mullingar Circuit Criminal Court imposed a three-year suspended sentence, 240 hours of community service, and ordered Seery to pay each victim €5,000.

  Sentenced, 4 Dec 2024Victim · 1 report

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1. 4 Dec2024
   Sentencedthejournal.ie, in Man sentenced in Mullingar over assault on garda and intimate image threat

   Suspended sentence for man who threatened to post intimate images of girl unless she met for sex

   victim, Gemma Prendergast, female, irish (judged from name)Gemma Prendergast♀IE

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