November 2008
Sex offender convicted in his absence
A DISTRICT Judge has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a 46-year-old man who was convicted in his absence at Londonderry Magistrate’s Court of indecently assaulting a 14-year-old schoolgirl
Barney McElholm convicted Martin Coll from the Carnhill area of the city of indecent assault and of indecent behaviour based on statements submitted to the court by three young girls.
Coll, who failed to answer his bail and turn up for his trial, committed the offences in Carnhill in November of last year. He has 55 previous convictions, eight of them for indecency offences.
Coll can only be sentenced when he’s arrested and brought before the court to sign up the Sex Offender’s Register.
