A Garda sergeant has been jailed for two years after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old Japanese male student who had come to Ireland to learn English.
Micheal Deasy (47), married with four children, Roselawn Road, Castleknock, had been suspended for three years on two-thirds pay from his Garda Headquarters job before this incident. The jury at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court convicted him unanimously on a charge of sexual assault on the victim in his house on August 13th, 2000. The victim had just arrived the previous evening to stay there while studying in Dublin.