This week convicted rapist Paul Moore will be sentenced for sexually assaulting a woman on a DART in 2014.
In the meantime however, the 51-year-old
has been spotted travelling on Dublin's LUAS system, side by side with people who know nothing of his past.
Moore, described in court by Judge Martin Nolan as having a "predisposition to violence towards women, which manifests as rape and sexual assault" was first caged for seven years for the rape of a woman in 1995.
He has been jailed six times for attacking women.
In 2001 he raped a musician, a crime for which he received a 10 year sentence. In 2015 he was jailed again, this time for assaulting two women in January and May of that year after stopping them in the street to ask them for a cigarette.
This week Moore will be sentenced for the assault of an au pair who was travelling home from college on a DART in August of 2014. Having been identified using CCTV from the attack, Moore pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
According to
The Herald, Moore has been seen leaving his home at Mountjoy Square in Dublin City Centre and walking through the both the north and south city.
On another recent occasion he walked to a Middle Abbey Street bookmakers before boarding a tram on the southbound Luas platform. He has also been seen in Smithfield after leaving the tram near the Four Courts.
Moore is due to be sentenced on March 16, 2017.
The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre offers help and support to anyone who has experienced sexual violence of any kind.
