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Notorious sex offender with over 200 convictions faces more time behind bars

Repeat offender is looking at extra years for yet more order breaches

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A notorious sex offender with over 200 convictions who a judge described as a “menace” is facing more time behind bars after being convicted of yet more breaches of the Sex Offenders Act.

Anthony Goodman (79) with an address at Civil Defence HQ Wolfe Tone Quay, Dublin 7, has 214 previous convictions for offences including multiple sexual assaults, buggering an animal, indecency, breaches of a sex offender order, burglary, arson and threats to kill.

Goodman, who has several convictions related to masturbating and sexual assaults on public transport, repeatedly gets caught breaching his sex offender order which bans him from public transport.

Every time he has been released from prison in recent years he has committed more sex crime

He appeared in court earlier this month to be sentence for two more breaches of a Sex Offender Order Contrary to Section 22 of the Sex Offenders Act 2001. He faces up to five years in prison on each count.

Goodman, who is originally from the UK but has been living in Ireland for years, is already serving a 12 month sentence handed down in December for other breaches of his order after a garda spotted him boarding the Luas.

A sex offender order was renewed in August 2017 against Goodman and its conditions prohibited him from getting onto public transport or using a shared means of private transport without prior notice to gardaí but a judge said he was clearly not deterred by the order and was “something of a menace”.

This order also prevents the fiend from “attending or loitering in the immediate vicinity of or on the grounds of any educational facility where children congregate”.

Goodman has been classed by Gardaí as a “prolific offender who sexually assaults females and children”.

In August 2018, Goodman told the Sunday World: “I’m not a danger to nobody” when our reporter confronted him after seeing he had once again breached the order by getting on a Luas.

He claimed he would not use public transport again.

In spite of his promise, just four hours later, we photographed Good- man breaching the order again as he boarded a Dublin Bus 185 Service in Enniskerry back to the capital.

Within days, Goodman had carried out a succession of offences including indecent exposure at a Malahide restaurant, indecent exposure on the 46a bus and a sexual assault on a woman on a bus on the Stillorgan Road.

At his sentence hearing, Judge Melanie Greally described Goodman as someone who lacked empathy, understanding or insight into his behaviour.

The court heard in the Malahide incident, One of the women noticed that the man was “almost squirming” in his seat and moving his hands quickly on his crotch while staring at her.

He had his hands down his trousers and the incident lasted for approximately 30-40 minutes.

The woman noticed two wet stains on his t-shirt when he stood up and left the restaurant without paying for his coffee. He was arrested four days later and released on bail.

One week after the other incident of exposure, Goodman masturbated on the 46a bus while staring at a woman. Later that day, he touched the breast of another woman on a bus