Twisted pervert Anthony Goodman (79) had 218 convictions for offences including multiple sexual assaults, buggering of an animal, indecency, breaches of a sex offender order, burglary, arson and threats to kill
Twisted pervert Anthony Goodman (79) who had 218 convictions for offences including multiple sexual assaults, buggering of an animal, indecency, breaches of a sex offender order, burglary, arson and threats to kill, died after falling ill while in Cloverhill Prison on May 6.
He was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
In April the Sunday World warned that Goodman was back on the streets at high risk of reoffending after being released from serving time for multiple breaches of the sex offenders register.
Despite being convicted of multiple separate offences, he was released on the same day in April that he was sentenced to another year behind bars for breaching his sex offenders order.
He had been in custody on remand for that charge and others for more than a year, so was deemed to have served his sentence and released.
Goodman, who was banned from public transport as he was such a menace to passengers, would repeatedly breach the order and use it any time he was released from prison and would masturbate in front of passengers and sexually assault them.
Despite continuously reoffending and showing no sign of rehabilitation, Goodman was unleashed back on to the streets on April 8 after serving a one-year sentence for a litany of such offences.
Anthony Goodman in 2017 (Photo: Sunday World)
The Sunday World can now reveal that on the exact same day he was released from prison, Goodman went to Raheny Dart Station in north Dublin where he masturbated in front of shocked commuters.
The following day Goodman continued his offending and got on public transport on the North Circular Road in Dublin in contravention of a sexual offender order banning him from doing so.
Goodman also went to ground and didn’t inform gardaí where he was staying and, given his history, he is likely to have committed more crimes which he wasn’t caught for while he was out of prison in April and May.
He was further charged with two separate charges of breaching the sex offenders act by failing to notify gardaí of his address. The first charge relates to the period from April 11 to April 21, while the second charge relates to the period from April 22 to May 2.
He was arrested and charged on May and remanded to Cloverhill Prison, where he took ill just three days later.
No funeral details were announced for Goodman.
Goodman was originally from the UK, where he also has numerous convictions, but has been living in Ireland for years.
Goodman had been classed by gardaí as a “prolific offender who sexually assaults females and children”.
In March of 2013 he was jailed for 10 months for fondling himself while watching girls studying in Cork City Library. The incident occurred at 2pm on February 6, 2012.
In July 2014 he was convicted of committing an indecent act in the ladies changing rooms of the University of Limerick’s Sports Arena.
Anthony Goodman in 2017 (Sunday World)
In August 2018, Goodman told the Sunday World “I’m not a danger to nobody” when our reporter confronted him after he breached his public transport ban by getting on a Luas.
He initially denied he had even been on public transport before our reporter told him: “I’ve just stood behind you on [the Luas] all the way from Heuston Station.”
Realising he’d been nabbed, Goodman changed tack, pleading for sympathy. He whined: “I’m in a hostel. I just got out of prison. I’m taking this [the ban] up with the High Court.”
He claimed he would not use public transport again.
In spite of his promise, just four hours later, we photographed Goodman 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.