Pat O'Connell
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Yeah, that's right.
So Patrick Devon, he's going to walk out the gates of the Midlands prison early on Thursday morning.
He served 12 years of a 14 year sentence that was handed down to him for attacking three women in the space of 11 days in July of 2014.
One of these women he raped, two of these women he sexually assaulted, and all three of these were women that he had met through Tinder.
And in the case of one of those women, we know the details of what occurred because he pleaded not guilty to that crime.
So it went to trial.
And this woman, basically last January, she went on Pat Kenny and raised the alarm that Patrick Nevin was going to be getting out this month because she is still so afraid of him and so fearful that what happened to her could happen to other women.
I suppose in her particular case,
When we go back to the details of the crime, she was a Brazilian student.
She was over as an English language student in UCD.
One of her friends had said to her, because she was struggling to make friends in this country, she was on her own, she was far from home.
So one of her friends advised her to open a Tinder account, and she described that in January as one of the worst decisions that she had ever made in her life, one of the biggest mistakes, because it put her, in her own words, in the hands of a monster.
Patrick Nevin made contact with her on Tinder.
She said at the beginning he appeared nice.
The trial heard that he made various suggestive sexual comments to her while they were interacting on Tinder.
She said her English language wasn't great.
She was using Google Translate a lot of the time.
But when he would make these comments, one of the things she said back to him, I'm a good girl.
I'm not that kind of girl.
And then he would retreat and basically he was charming on one level to her on Tinder on another level.