A man who previously pleaded guilty to involvement in a gang attack which left one man needed €10,000 worth of dental work has been jailed for 5 year after he raped a woman he met online.
Daniel Maymay (31) who is from the Phillipines and has an address at Thornbury, Kilmacrennan Road, Letterkenny, Co Donegal, was found guilty of one count of rape which took place on the 28th of January 2019 at his home.
It was reported that Maymay has 17 previous convictions “including one for violent disorder and possession of drugs for sale or supply” and that his ‘permission to remain within the State expired in 2020 and has not been renewed,’
Last Monday the Central Criminal Court heard that Maymar had met the victim online where an agreement had been reached that the two would meet up for coffee and consume cannabis.
Maymar brought the woman to his house where he proceeded to rape her after the woman had asked him to stop making sexual advances towards her and made it known that she wished to leave the house.
Mr. Justice Paul Burns sentenced Maymay to six years in jail for the rape, suspending the final year.
In 2013 Maymar pleaded guilty to involvement in an assault on two separate groups of men which left one of the victims in need of €10,000 worth of dental work where one man was knocked unconscious while another man suffered a broken arm.
Donegal Live reported that Maymay was part of a group of four men which launched attacks on the other groups after those involved had exited the Arena 7 in Letterkenny on the 30th of August 2013.
Maymay and three others, Darrell McDermot of of Cluain Ard, Letterkenny, Shane Kerr of Slieve Snacht Close, Letterkenny, Daniel Patterson of Fairgreen Hill, Letterkenny escaped jail being served with suspended sentences at a sitting of Letterkenny Circuit Court in 2017 before Judge John Aylmer.
During the trial it was claimed that a racist remark had been made about Maymay however this was denied by the victims of the assault.
It was reported that during the attack “One man was struck on the head and left unconscious at Middle Road” while “Kerr and McDermott attacked two other men who had followed them when they fled and were in the process of updating gardaí on their location by phone.”
The four were fined a total of €30,000.