Asylum seeker had UK conviction for sex assault before rape and attacks on women here

A Pakistani national who arrived in Ireland in 2018 and was subsequently granted refugee status despite holding a prior conviction for sexual assault in the United Kingdom has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for serious sexual offences committed in County Sligo. Tayyab Salah Uddin pleaded guilty to the rape of a woman on 15 September 2018 and to the false imprisonment of a…