Retired teacher fails to overturn conviction for sexually assaulting student
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A retired teacher has failed in an attempt to overturn a conviction for sexually assaulting one of his students.
Lawyers for the now 80-year-old man told the three-judge court that there was no evidence in relation to five of the eight counts on which he was convicted and that in relation to the other three there was evidence that gave rise to a reasonable doubt.
John Devlin SC, for the appellant, said the judge had not adequately summarised the defence case before sending the jury out and noted that the jury at Cork Circuit Criminal Court took just over one hour to convict on all counts.