A Dublin man has been sentenced to 15 years for his role in trying to make a female college student have sex with her male housemates after breaking into their home with a hammer and hacksaw.
Jason Paget (aged 24) had just turned 16 years old when he and co-accused, Stephen Phelan (aged 26), broke into the Dublin home, threatened the three occupants for their ATM cards and personal identification numbers and ordered the woman to have sex with her housemates after she had been made strip naked.
Paget, of Aylward Green, Finglas, was extradited back to Ireland last year after he left for the UK in 2003.
He pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to aggravated burglary at a St Albans Road premises and aggravated burglary and sexual assault of a woman with intent to cause degradation at another Dublin address, all on February 11, 2003. He has no previous convictions.
Phelan, of Poddle Close, Crumlin, previously had his nine-year sentence for these and other serious crimes, including a vicious knife attack, increased to 13 years on a DPP appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeal.
Mr Justice Paul Carney declared Paget a sex offender. He said the “voluntary use of drugs” and a dysfunctional background offered the defendant no mitigation.
He said “the criminality and viciousness of the offence had already been measured by the Court of Criminal Appeal”.
Mr Justice Carney suspended the final five years of the sentence having taken into account the garda evidence that Paget was not the ringleader, his lack of previous convictions, his genuine remorse and his good behaviour since the offence.
Mr Justice Carney ordered that Paget should never have any contact with the victims in the case and he ordered that he undergo five years post release supervision.
Detective Sergeant Joe McLoughlin revealed that Phelan, who had 26 previous convictions at the time of the offence, was the main aggressor in the burglaries and sex assault and had cut the female victim on her back from shoulder to waistline during the ordeal.
Mr John Aylmer SC, defending Paget, asked Mr Justice Carney to take into account his client’s expression of remorse, his guilty plea and the fact he has been of good behaviour since the incidents, despite being “unlawfully at large”.
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