Paddy McCourt has been found guilty by a judge of sexually assaulting a woman in a bar in the centre of Derry last year.
Following a two day trial at the Magistrate’s Court in Derry, District Judge Ted Magill convicted the 39-year-old father-of-three, from Wheatfield Court in Muff, Co Donegal, of committing the offence in the early hours of January 30, 2022, in the 57 Bar in Waterloo Street. An earlier hearing was told the accused had reached under the woman’s skirt and touched her underwear.
On the second day of the trial it emerged that the defendant’s DNA was not among the mixed profile male DNA found on the complainant’s dress or underwear.
