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Chapter 1: What are the details surrounding Patrick Nevin's release from prison?
Tinder rapist Patrick Nevin will walk free from the Midlands prison this week. The 44-year-old who hunted for victims on the dating app and attacked three women over an 11-day period in July of 2014 will be placed on the sex offenders register. Today, I'm talking to Pat O'Connell about the sex attacker whom one victim dubbed a monster.
You're listening to Crime World, a podcast from crimeworld.com. Pat, we're going to talk today about a very dangerous guy called Patrick Nevin, who's been in the Midlands prison for some years and is due out in the coming days. We're going to run his photograph as well for people because he's quite a distinctive looking guy. He's young for all that he's done.
And he is what we call the Tinder rapist.
Yeah, that's right. So Patrick Devon, he's going to walk out the gates of the Midlands prison early on Thursday morning.
Chapter 2: How did Patrick Nevin target his victims on Tinder?
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.
Chapter 3: What happened during the attacks on the three women?
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.
Yeah.
And then he would retreat and basically he was charming on one level to her on Tinder on another level. Those kind of comments were still coming from him.
Chapter 4: What was the legal outcome of Patrick Nevin's trial?
pushing the boundaries a bit all the time you know being aggressive aggressively sexual and then retreating when he felt he'd overstepped the mark um eventually he said well look we can just be friends and he told this woman that he was going to take her to the best coffee place in dublin And she believed that was going to happen.
Instead, he picked her up in a blue BMW that he also used in all the other crimes he committed because there was a pattern here with what Patrick Nevin was doing. He was picking people up in these cars, picking women up in these cars, taking them to isolated locations. And then he was attacking them.
With the Brazilian student, he actually took her into the UCD campus and took her to a secluded field. She told him that this wasn't what she was planning on doing.
Yeah, they were going for this coffee as far as she was concerned.
But she said he basically turned into a monster in the car, that he attacked her, he tried to kiss her, he tried to get her clothes off.
Now while this was happening she did somehow manage to get her seatbelt off and to open the door and she ran and as she fled he drove away from the scene and there was a woman out walking her dogs that helped her to get into a taxi and she managed to report the crime later.
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Chapter 5: How did Patrick Nevin's past influence his criminal behavior?
Now luckily UCD have cameras at the entrances and exits of that campus. And the Gardaí were able to track Patrick Nevin through the registration number of his car. But at the same time, he was also under investigation for a number of other attacks during the same election.
He was under investigation or there was an unknown assailant under investigation for sort of similar Tinder attacks?
Yeah. That's not entirely clear. There was three attacks that had been carried out. Within a short space of time. Within 11 days.
Chapter 6: What was Patrick Nevin's life like before his crimes?
One of these was a woman that he again picked up in the blue BMW, took to a laneway up in the Dublin mountains. That woman was right. There was another woman similar MO, who he sexually assaulted. And all of these three cases would later come to court. Two of them he had pleaded not guilty to, as with the Brazilian student. He pleaded not guilty, but it was a legal ruling
that happened while those cases were going on, where the judge accepted that other victims' evidence could be heard because it was systemic, what he was doing. Okay. There was... A pattern.
Chapter 7: What impact did the attacks have on the victims?
A pattern.
Yeah.
So other victims were going to come forward and then he pleaded guilty to the rape and the sexual assault of the two other women. In the case of the Brazilian student, it went to trial and he was convicted of it. So... Ultimately, he was given a 14 year sentence for the rape and two eight year sentences for the sexual assault.
And it's for those crimes that Patrick Nevin has been in prison for the last 12 years.
Was there other, you talk about other victims were going to come forward and give evidence in relation to a pattern of abuse. There might have been other cases that the DPP didn't believe there was enough evidence in for a singular charge, perhaps. So there was other victims there too?
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of Patrick Nevin's release for public safety?
I'm not sure. That was just the legal ruling was that other victims' evidence could be heard. And that's what convinced them to plead guilty.
He's 44 years of age now, so he was in his early 30s when they occurred. What do we know about him before any of this?
Well, we know that Patrick Nevin was born in 1981. His parents broke up when he was nine years old and then his father, Patrick Senior, he would have moved to Denmark and they would have lived in a town called Horsens. Now, his father would have been a social worker in a center in Horsens. It was called the Horsens Center.
And up until Patrick Nevin was a teenager, you know, we don't know a huge amount about that period of his life. We do know as a teenager that he was convicted for an attack on a man at a neo-Nazi rally. And then he committed his first crime of his sexual nature when he was 17 years old. Essentially, he visited a friend's house.
Now, the friend wasn't there, but he was in the house when he became extremely violent towards the friend's mother, and he sexually assaulted her.
And this was in Denmark?
This was in Denmark, and he was later convicted. of an aggravated oral rape and sexual assault. Now, because he was still a minor at that stage, the Danish courts gave him a short sentence on condition that when that sentence ended, that he would return to Ireland.
Okay. And he did, obviously.
Yeah, he did.
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