Serial sex offender jailed for assaulting teenage girls on Luas

John Daly (53) nominated as suspect after gardaí view CCTV footage from tram

Sentencing of serial sex offender for molesting two girls on the Luas adjournedThe sentencing of a serial sex offender who molested two Limerick girls on the Luas while they were en-route to a Rihanna concert has been adjourned for a second time.

John Daly (53) was arrested by gardaí three months later as he was about to board the tram at the O2 following a One Direction concert.

He had been nominated as a suspect after gardaí viewed CCTV footage from the tram when the girls, aged 13 and 16, reported him.

Daly admitted during interview that he had deliberately got on the Luas, heading for the Rihanna concert, to touch young girls and get sexually aroused.

He said he had it “in my head to do it” and had been doing it “for my own satisfaction”.

Daly of Cabra Park, Phibsboro pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to two charges of sexual assault on October 3, 2011.