Overview
- A jury last week convicted Louay Kila of raping and sexually assaulting a colleague who was asleep on a couch in Limerick in March 2024.
- Judge Sean Gillane imposed an eight-year prison term and said Kila deliberately exploited the victim’s intoxication and sleep.
- The court treated a photo sent to the victim’s boyfriend showing Kila kissing her as a deliberate humiliation and an aggravating factor.
- Kila was placed on the sex-offenders register, and he had been voluntarily suspended from the medical practitioners’ list since March 2025.
- HSE Mid West said its failure to suspend him at the time did not reflect current policy and stated that protective measures were put in place for the victim.