Man told police 'it was her fault' he grabbed woman's bottom
Man convicted of sexual assault told police ‘it was her fault’ he grabbed her bottom outside Dublin bar because ‘she should have covered up’
- Richard Duncan claimed he was ‘handsome’ and cat-called the medical student
- Duncan, 42, groped the twenty-something woman when she left the club in 2017
- Orla Moynihan, a detective, said she saw Duncan ‘grab the woman’s buttocks’
- She said Duncan told her: ‘She had nothing on… She should have covered up’
A man convicted of sexual assault told police ‘it was her fault’ he grabbed her bottom outside a Dublin bar because ‘she should have covered up’.
Richard Duncan, 42, who claimed he was ‘tall and handsome’, cat-called the twenty-something medical student in a club before groping her when she left in February 2017.
The woman, who has not been named, said Duncan told her she was ‘looking well’ when he walked past her.
Richard Duncan, 42, who claimed he was ‘tall and handsome’, cat-called the twenty-something medical student in a club before groping her when she left in February 2017 (file photo)
She came across Duncan again 30 minutes later when she returned to the club and told how he ‘grabbed at me just above my bum’, according to the Irish Independent.
She said: ‘I told him something along the lines of ‘Go away’, I was taken aback, I wasn’t expecting it to happen, I was upset.’
Orla Moynihan, a detective with the Garda, said she saw Duncan ‘grab the buttocks of the female in a red dress’.
She told how Duncan ‘told us to f**k off and we only work for Denis O’Brien’.
She said he added: ‘It’s her own fault, she had nothing on. Not my fault, she didn’t complain. I’m tall and handsome, women are chasing me. She should have covered up.’
He was taken to a police station but the woman withdrew her statement due to university work commitments.
She later gave evidence and Duncan was found guilty of sexual assault after he pleaded not guilty.
The woman came across Duncan when she returned to the Dublin (file photo) club and told how he ‘grabbed at me just above my bum’
Former police officer and senior criminology lecturer at Gloucester University Jane Monckton Smith told the Independent: ‘There are so many issues raised by this short exchange.’
‘The police officer did absolutely the right thing sending a message to predatory men that they cannot just grab people without their consent. Consent is not given in the way someone dresses.
‘The defence is archaic in suggesting this man has the right to act on his own sense of entitlement and nothing else.’
After being in custody for a week while on trial, Duncan disappeared. But he was later caught.
He has been released on bail by the judge at Dublin Crown Court and will be sentenced next year.
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