Doyle court appeal
FORMER SWIM COACH APPEALS CONVICTION
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Wednesday March 10 2010
FORMER New Ross and Olympic swimming coach, Ger Doyle, has appealed his conviction for assaulting five young boys over a 13-year period.
Doyle was sentenced to six and a half years in prison by Judge Alice Doyle at Wexford Circuit Criminal Court earlier this year.
He had protested his innocence last November when a jury of six men and six women found him guilty of 35 offences involving five boys aged 10 to 15 years old at New Ross Swimming Pool between January 1981 and December 1993.
The Courts Service confirmed this week that he has appealed the conviction to the Court of Criminal Appeal.
