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Indecent assault; unlawful carnal knowledge (incest)

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3 reports, 14 May 2022 to 26 May 2022

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donegallive.ie

• Former garda sentenced for incest at family home in Munster Indecent assault; unlawful carnal knowledge (incest)

  Stephen Stokes, 29, from Dublin, was charged with robbing €600 in cash and five boxes of Benson & Hedges cigarettes from Kernan's Spar, Letterkenny, while wielding a knife, and with using force or putting shop assistant Mark Hegarty in fear. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison at Letterkenny Circuit Court on 26 May 2022. Separately, a 63-year-old former Garda detective, who cannot be named to protect the victim's anonymity, pleaded guilty to five counts of indecent assault and five counts of unlawful carnal knowledge of his 15-year-old sister at the family home in Munster between May and October 1979. He was sentenced to four years in prison on 26 May 2022.

  Sentenced, 26 May 2022Victim · 3 reports

Each entry shows how that report described them.

1. 26 May2022
   Sentenceddonegallive.ie, in Former garda sentenced for incest at family home in Munster

   Man jailed after wielding knife at Letterkenny shop assistant

   victim, Mark Hegarty, male, irish (judged from name)Mark Hegarty♂IE
2. 22 May2022
   In courtdonegallive.ie, in Former garda sentenced for incest at family home in Munster

   Man had Letterkenny shop assistant at knifepoint during robbery

   victim, Mark Hegarty, male, irish (judged from name)Mark Hegarty♂IE
3. 14 May2022
   In courtdonegallive.ie, in Former garda sentenced for incest at family home in Munster

   Donegal man misses court appearance after prison van breaks down

   victim, Mark Hegarty, irish (judged from name)Mark HegartyIE

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