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Mamadou Alpha Bah (27) had met the 43-year-old woman a month earlier and they had been exchanging messages before arranging to meet that night, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard on Monday.

Inspector Brian Hunt told Ed O’Mahony BL, prosecuting, that the woman went for drinks with Bah before they walked back together to the hotel in Dublin city centre. He invited her into his room, and she voluntarily went there with him.

They had a few beers together and chatted before the woman got up to get a taxi.

Inps Hunt said Bah then pushed the woman back onto the bed and pinned her there. She later told gardaí he had “the look of the devil”.

He ordered her to take off her clothes and threatened to break her neck if she didn’t, before he sexually assaulted her through her clothes. He punched the woman and continually tried to force her legs open.

The woman asked to go to the bathroom and Bah let her up, but followed her in. He then went to use the toilet himself and the woman managed to escape from the hotel room.

Insp Hunt said Bah chased the woman through the hotel corridor shouting at her: “Get back in b***h.”

Bah, of The View, St Wolstans Abbey, Celbridge, Co Kildare, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to sexual assault and assault causing harm to the woman at the hotel on September 2nd, 2020.

Insp Hunt confirmed that while Bah had no previous convictions at the time of the offence, he has since been convicted of sexual assault and false imprisonment of a woman in August 2021.

He said the headline sentence was in the region of eight to nine years, “by reason of the violence involved”, having taken into account the maximum penalty available to the court was 10 years.

Judge Nolan said Bah’s plea of guilty was “late” but “valuable”. He took into account that Bah was an African national who speaks French and as such, would have difficulty in prison because he has little English.

He jailed Bah for six years (so out in 3)

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